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Zahir Faryabi
Zahir Faryabi (ظهیر فاریابی) was a Persian court poet of the 12th century, a leading master of the qasida and ghazal who served the Ildegozid atabegs of Azerbaijan and died in Tabriz in 1201.
Zahir Howaida
Zahir Howaida (ظاهر هویدا) was an Afghan singer from Daykundi province, a leading voice of the Radio Kabul golden age of the 1960s and 1970s.
Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi
Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi (زاهر بن أحمد السرخسي) was a tenth-century Sunni scholar of Sarakhs, a Quran reciter, hadith scholar, and Shafi'i jurist who died in 998.
Zahir ibn Rustom al-Isbahani
Zahir ibn Rustom al-Isbahani was a Shafi'i Sufi Quran reciter and precision specialist, born in Baghdad in 526 AH and long imam of the Maqam in Mecca.
Zahiri school
The Zahiri school (الظاهرية) is a school of Islamic law founded in ninth-century Baghdad by Dawud ibn Ali, which rejected analogy and adhered to the apparent wording of the Qur'an and Sunna.
Zahn McClarnon
Zahn McClarnon (Zahn Tokiya-ku McClarnon), born 1966 in Denver, is a Hunkpapa Lakota and Irish American actor known for Longmire, Fargo's Hanzee Dent, Westworld's Akecheta, Reservation Dogs' Big, and starring as Joe Leaphorn in Dark Winds.
Zaho de Sagazan
Zaho de Sagazan (born 1999, Saint-Nazaire) is a French singer-songwriter blending chanson and electronic music; debut album La Symphonie des éclairs (2023), four 2024 Victoires de la musique, 2025 female artist of the year, second album VERSATILE.
Zahra Aga Khan
Princess Zahra Aga Khan (born 1970), eldest daughter of Aga Khan IV, AKDN Board director overseeing Health, Education, and Planning and Building Services, and Pro-Chancellor of Aga Khan University since 2025.
Zahran Hashim
Zahran Hashim, also Mohamed Cassim Mohamed Zahran, was the Sri Lankan National Thowheed Jamaath founder and radical preacher from Kattankudy identified as ringleader of the ISIS-claimed 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings, dying at the Shangri-La Hotel.
Zai Yu
Zai Yu (宰予), also called Zai Wo, was a disciple of Confucius from the state of Lu, ranked in the Analects among the ten wise disciples in the speech category.
Zaian Confederation
The Zaian Confederation was a coalition of Berber tribes in Morocco's Middle Atlas that resisted French colonial expansion in the Zaian War of 1914 to 1921.
Zaian War
The Zayane resistance was the armed opposition of Morocco's Zaian Confederation, Amazigh tribes of the Middle Atlas Mountains, to French colonial expansion between 1914 and 1921, in the conflict called the Zaian War.
Zaibatsu (財閥)
A zaibatsu (財閥) was a large Japanese business group before 1945, controlled by a founding family and diversified across industries, the largest being Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, and Yasuda.
Zaichōkanjin
Zaichōkanjin (在庁官人), often shortened to zaichō, were resident local officials who carried out the practical work of provincial government at each province's kokuga in Japan from the mid-Heian through the Kamakura period.
Zaifeng, Prince Chun
Zaifeng (载沣, 1883-1951), second Prince Chun of the Qing Aisin Gioro clan, father of Emperor Puyi, served as Prince-Regent 1908-1912, dismissed Yuan Shikai, pursued constitutional reform, and died in Beijing in 1951.
Zaihe Truck (载合卡车)
Zaihe Truck (载合卡车) is a Chinese startup founded in 2022 in Suzhou that builds battery-electric and hydrogen-electric heavy trucks, incubated by Tsinghua University's Suzhou automotive research institute.
Zail Singh (ਜ਼ੈਲ ਸਿੰਘ)
Giani Zail Singh (ਜ਼ੈਲ ਸਿੰਘ) was an Indian politician who served as the seventh president of India from 1982 to 1987, the first Sikh in the office.
Zain Asher
Zain Ejiofor Asher, British-Nigerian CNN International anchor, hosts One World with Zain Asher and Marketplace Africa from New York; CNN's Chibok kidnapping coverage she reported on won a 2014 Peabody Award, and she wrote the 2022 memoir Where the Children Take Us.
Zain Group
Zain Group, formally Mobile Telecommunications Company, is a Kuwait-based telecom operator founded in 1983, serving over 51 million customers across the Middle East and Africa.
Zain Imam
Zain Imam is an Indian television actor born in 1988 in New Delhi, known for Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan, Tashan-E-Ishq (Yuvraj Luthra), Naamkarann (Neil Khanna), Fanaa: Ishq Mein Marjawan, and Suman Indori on Colors TV, with four award wins.
Zain Iqbal
Zain Iqbal is a British actor from Manchester, England, known for playing Ravi Singh in the BBC Three and Netflix series A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
Zain-ul-Abidin
Zain-ul-Abidin (زین العابدین), popularly known as Budshah, was the eighth Sultan of Kashmir of the Shah Miri dynasty, reigning from 1420 to 1470 and remembered for religious tolerance and a revival of arts and crafts.
Zainab bint Muhammad (زينب بنت محمد)
Zainab bint Muhammad (زينب بنت محمد), eldest daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and Khadija, married her cousin Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi, was injured migrating to Medina, reunited with her converted husband, and died in 8 AH, buried in Baqi'.
Zainal Abidin III of Terengganu
Sultan Zainal Abidin III (1864–1918) was the eleventh Sultan of Terengganu who reigned from 1881, enacted the state's first written constitution in 1911, and kept Terengganu free of a British Adviser.
Zainal Abidin of Ternate
Zainal Abidin of Ternate, who died in 1500, was the first sultan of Ternate in the Maluku Islands, ruling from 1486 to 1500 and making Islam the official state religion.
Zainichi Korean literature
Zainichi Korean literature (재일문학) is poetry, fiction, and criticism by people of Korean descent living in Japan, shaped by Japan's colonial rule over Korea from 1910 to 1945.
Zainsk GRES power station
Zainsk GRES is a large gas-fired thermal power station in Zainsk, Tatarstan, Russia, and the largest power plant in Tatarstan, with a capacity of 2,204.9 MW.
Zainuddin Makhdum I
Zainuddin Makhdum I (زين الدين مخدوم) was a Shafi'i jurist and teacher at Ponnani on the Kerala coast who built the Grand Mosque of Ponnani in 1519–1520 and died in 1522.
Zainuddin Shirazi
Zainuddin Shirazi (زین الدین شیرازی) was a Chishti Sufi master and Qazi of Daulatabad who led the Khuldabad Chishtis from about 1340 until his death in 1369–70.
Zainul Abedin
Zainul Abedin (জয়নুল আবেদিন, 1914–1976) was a Bengali painter from Mymensingh, considered the founding figure of Bangladeshi modern art and best known for the Famine Sketches of the 1943 Bengal Famine.