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Ahmad of Brunei
Ahmad of Brunei, traditionally known as Pateh Berbai, was the second sultan of Brunei, brother of the first sultan Muhammad Shah, credited with naming the state.
Ahmad of Kalat (احمد یار خان)
Mir Ahmad Yar Khan (میر احمد یارخان, 1904–1979), Khan of Kalat from 1933, proclaimed Kalat's independence 15 August 1947 under a standstill agreement and signed the Instrument of Accession to Pakistan on 27 March 1948; later Khan-e-Azam of the Balochistan States Union.
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri, also known as Ahmad Hariri, is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor at Duke University known for imaging genetics research linking serotonin gene variation to amygdala reactivity.
Ahmad Rahi
Ahmad Rahi (احمد راہی), born Ghulam Ahmad in 1923, was a Pakistani poet and film lyricist whose Punjabi collection Trinjhan and songs for films like Heer Ranjha became classics.
Ahmad Rashad
Ahmad Rashad, born Robert Earl Moore in 1949, is an American sportscaster and former NFL wide receiver, a four-time Pro Bowl Minnesota Viking, College Football Hall of Famer, and longtime host of NBA Inside Stuff.
Ahmad Sadali
Ahmad Sadali (1924–1987) was an Indonesian painter and art educator from Garut, West Java, known as the father of abstract art in Indonesia and a leading figure of the Bandung School.
Ahmad Samani
Ahmad Samani, called Amir-e Shahid, was a Samanid amir of Transoxania and Khorasan who reigned from 907 to 914 and was murdered by his Turkic palace guards.
Ahmad Sanjar
Ahmad Sanjar (سنجر) was a Seljuk ruler of Khorasan from 1097 and Great Sultan of the Seljuk empire from 1118 until his death in 1157.
Ahmad Shah (Taliban)
Ahmad Shah (nom de guerre Mohammad Ismail, Mullah Ismail), Afghan militant commander of Kunar Province, target of Operation Red Wings 2005, blamed for Chinook shootdown killing 16, killed by Pakistani police near Peshawar in April 2008.
Ahmad Shah Bahadur
Ahmad Shah Bahadur, also known as Mirza Ahmad Shah, was the fourteenth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1748 to 1754, when his wazir Imad-ul-Mulk deposed and blinded him.
Ahmad Shah Durrani
Ahmad Shah Durrani (Ahmad Shah Abdali, c. 1722–1772), founder of the Durrani Empire and of the Afghan state, elected king at Kandahar in 1747 after Nader Shah's assassination; won Panipat in 1761.
Ahmad Shah Durrani's invasions of India
Ahmad Shah Durrani's invasions of India (अहमद शाह दुर्रानी के भारत आक्रमण) were campaigns by the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Durrani into Mughal India from 1747.
Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat
Ahmad Shah I (احمد شاه اول) was the second sultan of Gujarat, reigning from 1411 to 1442, who founded Ahmedabad and consolidated the independent Gujarat Sultanate.
Ahmad Shah I Wali
Ahmad Shah I Wali (احمد شاہ ولی بہمنی) was sultan of the Bahmani empire of the Deccan from 1422 to 1436, moving its capital to Bidar.
Ahmad Shah I Wali's transfer of Bahmani capital to Bidar
Ahmad Shah I Wali's transfer of the Bahmani capital to Bidar (بیدر) moved the sultanate's seat from Gulbarga to Bidar around 1424, for its defenses and climate.
Ahmad Shah Massoud (احمد شاه مسعود)
Ahmad Shah Massoud (احمد شاه مسعود), the Lion of Panjshir, was an Afghan Tajik mujahideen commander, defense minister 1992–2001, and Northern Alliance leader against the Soviets and Taliban, assassinated by al-Qaeda on 9 September 2001.
Ahmad Shah of Malacca
Ahmad Shah of Malacca was the last sultan of the Malacca Sultanate, a son of Sultan Mahmud Syah who reigned when the Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511.
Ahmad Shah of Pahang
Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar (1930-2019), fifth Sultan of Pahang 1974-2019 and seventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong 1979-1984; FAM president 1984-2000; abdicated January 2019 in favor of son Sultan Abdullah.
Ahmad Shah Qajar (احمد شاه قاجار)
Ahmad Shah Qajar (احمد شاه قاجار), 1898–1930, seventh and last Qajar shah of Iran, enthroned 1909 at age 12, deposed 31 October 1925 by the Majlis in favor of Reza Khan, died in exile in France.
Ahmad Shawqi
Ahmad Shawqi (أحمد شوقي) was an Egyptian poet and playwright, court poet to the khedives and pioneer of Arabic verse drama, proclaimed Prince of Poets in 1927.
Ahmad Sirhindi
Ahmad Sirhindi, also called Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thani or Imam Rabbani, was an Indian Naqshbandi Sufi master (1564–1624) whose Maktubat letters and wahdat al-shuhud doctrine shaped the order for four centuries.
Ahmad Tajuddin Mukarram Shah
Ahmad Tajuddin Mukarram Shah was Sultan of Kedah from 1854 to 1879, a reign remembered as the start of the state's development and administrative modernization.
Ahmad Talib Hameed
Ahmad Talib Hameed is a Saudi scholar and Quran reciter who served as imam and khateeb of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina from 2013 to 2025.
Ahmad Tawfiq al-Madani
Ahmad Tawfiq al-Madani (أحمد توفيق المدني) was an Algerian reformist leader, journalist, and historian, born in Tunis in 1898, who co-founded the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama in 1931.
Ahmad Taymur
Ahmad Taymur (أحمد تيمور) was an Egyptian scholar of literature, philologist, historian, and book collector who lived from 1871 to 1930 and pioneered the study of Arabic proverbs.
Ahmad Tegüder
Ahmad Tegüder (تکودار) was the third il-khan of the Mongol Ilkhanate of Iran from 1282 to 1284, a convert to Islam who pursued peace with the Mamluks.
Ahmad Tohari
Ahmad Tohari (born 1948) is an Indonesian novelist from Banyumas, Central Java, best known for the Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk trilogy, widely translated into five languages.
Ahmad Urabi
Ahmad Urabi (أحمد عرابي) was an Egyptian army officer of peasant origin who led the nationalist revolt of 1881 to 1882 against Anglo-French domination of Khedive Tewfik's administration.
Ahmad Wali
Ahmad Wali (احمد ولی) is an Afghan ghazal and pop singer born in Kabul, a prominent figure of Afghan music's golden years who recorded from 1967 and later settled in Virginia.
Ahmad Yadgar
Ahmad Yadgar (احمد یادگار) was a sixteenth-century Indian historian who served Daud Shah of Bengal and wrote the Tarikh-i Shahi, a Persian history of the Afghan sultans.