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Iqtibas
Iqtibas (Arabic: الاقتباس, literally "kindling") is an Arabic rhetorical device in which a writer embeds wording from the Qur'an or hadith, or from proverbs and famous sayings, into a new composition without naming the source.
Iqtidar (اقتدار)
Iqtidar (اقتدار) is a 2024–2025 Pakistani Urdu drama serial on Green Entertainment, written by Hina Huma Nafees and directed by Fahim Burney, starring Anmol Baloch as Mehrunisa and Ali Raza as Shahnawaz Shah, about a woman seeking justice for her brother's death; originally titled Qurat-ul-Ain.
IQue Player
iQue Player (神游机, Shenyou Ji), also called iQue PLAYER: plug-and-play Nintendo 64 variant by iQue, released only in China in 2003 to dodge the console ban; 14 Chinese-localized N64 games on 64 MB flash cards via kiosks.
Iquicha War
The Iquicha War (1825–1828) was a monarchist rebellion in Huanta, Ayacucho, Peru, where peasant communities loyal to Spain fought the army of the new Republic of Peru.
Iquique
Iquique, port city and capital of Chile's Tarapacá Region; former nitrate shipping hub, site of the 1879 naval battle, home of the ZOFRI duty-free zone, pop. 191,468 (2017).
Iquitos
Iquitos is the largest city of the Peruvian Amazon and capital of Loreto, on the Amazon near the Río Nanay mouth, reachable only by river or air; a Rubber Boom port city with about 371,000 people and heavy flood exposure.
IQVIA
IQVIA Holdings (NYSE: IQV), formerly Quintiles IMS, is a provider of clinical research services, healthcare data analytics, and real-world evidence, formed by the 2016 IMS Health and Quintiles merger; 2025 revenue $16.3 billion.
Ir-Nanna
Ir-Nanna was a high official of the Third Dynasty of Ur who served as grand vizier (sukkal-mah) and governor of Lagash in the late 21st century BC.
IR-T1
IR-T1 (Iran-Tokamak 1) is a small experimental tokamak at Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, obtained from China in 1994 and used for diagnostic development and MHD instability studies.
Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)
Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station) at Lemmer, Friesland, is the largest steam pumping station ever built, opened in 1920, UNESCO-listed since 1998, and still operated by Wetterskip Fryslân to pump excess Frisian water into the IJsselmeer.
IR35
IR35, the UK off-payroll working rules from the Finance Act 2000, taxes contractors through personal service companies like employees when the engagement resembles employment; reformed 2017 and 2021 to shift status determination to clients.
Ira A. Weinstock
Ira A. Weinstock is an American-born inorganic chemist and full professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, known for polyoxometalate cluster chemistry, green oxidation catalysis, and water oxidation research.
Ira B. Bernstein
Ira B. Bernstein was an American theoretical plasma physicist at Yale who discovered the Bernstein wave and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984.
Ira B. Black
Ira B. Black was an American neuroscientist who converted bone marrow stem cells into nerve cells and founded the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey in 2004.
Ira Bhaskar
Ira Bhaskar is an Indian film studies scholar, professor and former dean at JNU's School of Arts and Aesthetics, known for work on Islamicate Bombay cinema, melodrama, and Partition, and for CBFC membership.
Ira D. Goldfine
Ira D. Goldfine is an American physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for showing that insulin binds to sites inside cells, including the nucleus.
Ira David Sankey
Ira David Sankey (1840–1908) was an American gospel singer and lay evangelist, the solo singer of Dwight L. Moody's revival campaigns from 1870 to 1899, and compiler of the hymnbook Sacred Songs and Solos.
Ira Dubey
Ira Dubey, Indian actress, producer, and writer; daughter of Lillete Dubey; Yale theatre studies graduate (2004). Known for 9 Parts of Desire, Aisha, Dear Zindagi, Potluck, and Fatima Jinnah in Freedom at Midnight; founded Lila Naatak Company.
Ira Dyer
Ira Dyer (1925–2016) was an American acoustics researcher and professor of ocean engineering at MIT, where he headed the Ocean Engineering Department and led six Arctic acoustics field programs.
Ira Ehrenpreis
Ira Ehrenpreis is a venture capitalist, founder and managing partner of the impact investing firm DBL Partners, and a Tesla board member since a career beginning in 1996.
Ira Einhorn
Ira Einhorn (1940-2020), the 'Unicorn Killer,' was a Philadelphia counterculture guru and Earth Day master of ceremonies convicted of murdering Holly Maddux, whose body was found in his trunk; a fugitive in France for 16 years, he was extradited in 2001 and sentenced to life in 2002.
Ira G. Wool
Ira G. Wool (1925–2012) was an American biochemist and physician at the University of Chicago whose insulin research opened the study of the eukaryotic ribosome.
Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin, 1896-1983), American lyricist and older brother of composer George Gershwin; first lyricist to win a Pulitzer Prize (Of Thee I Sing, 1932), lyricist of Porgy and Bess, Lady Be Good, and I Got Rhythm.
Ira Glass
Ira Glass (born 1959) is the American host and executive producer of This American Life, the weekly public radio show and podcast he launched at WBEZ Chicago in 1995 after 17 years at NPR, known for its narrative journalism, nine Peabody Awards, and the first Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast.
Ira Green
Ira Green is an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health's Laboratory of Immunology in Bethesda, Maryland, whose 1974 study traced nodular lymphoma to follicular B lymphocytes.
Ira Hansen
Ira Hansen is an American Republican politician who served in the Nevada Assembly from 2011 to 2017 and has represented District 14 in the Nevada Senate since 2018.
Ira Hayes
Ira Hayes (Ira Hamilton Hayes, 1923-1955), Pima Indian Marine and Gila River tribal member, one of six flag raisers in Joe Rosenthal's 1945 Iwo Jima photograph; later honored by the Marine Corps War Memorial and Johnny Cash's ballad.
Ira Herskowitz
Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003) was an American molecular geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, who worked out how baker's yeast switches mating type and how yeast cells divide asymmetrically.
Ira Hirsh
Ira Hirsh (1922–2010) was an American psychoacoustician and a founder of modern audiology who spent his career at Washington University and the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis.
Ira J. Goldberg
Ira J. Goldberg is an American physician-scientist who leads endocrinology at NYU Langone, having earlier been a Columbia professor, and is known for arguing that cardiovascular disease in diabetes is driven by factors beyond glucose.