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Anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk is a political subgenre of 1980s punk rock aligned with anarchism, led by Crass (1977–1984), defined by DIY production, anti-commercialism, animal rights, and anti-nuclear politics, later spawning crust punk and scenes in the US and Mexico City.
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism, also called revolutionary syndicalism, fuses anarchist politics with direct-action unionism. Key bodies include Spain's CNT (founded 1910), Argentina's FORA, and the IWW; its apogee came in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
Anarchy
Anarchy is the condition of society without ruling power; anarchism is the political theory skeptical of state authority, grounded in freedom from domination, mutual aid, and non-coercive consensus, spanning political, religious, theoretical, and applied varieties from Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, and Kropotkin onward.
Anarchy at Samarra
The Anarchy at Samarra (فتنة سامراء) was a period of instability in the Abbasid Caliphate from 861 to 870, during which four caliphs were murdered or deposed.
Anarchy of the 'Abid al-Bukhari
The Anarchy of the 'Abid al-Bukhari was a period of succession struggles in Morocco after Sultan Moulay Isma'il died in 1727, with the 'Abid al-Bukhari slave-soldier corps installing and deposing sultans.
Anarchy of the Twelve Warlords
The Anarchy of the Twelve Warlords (Loạn 12 sứ quân) was a civil war in tenth-century Vietnam, ended when Dinh Bo Linh reunified the country in 967.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Anarchy, State, and Utopia is Robert Nozick's 1974 libertarian defense of the minimal state, a National Book Award-winning reply to Rawls's A Theory of Justice built on rights as side constraints and the entitlement theory.
Anarkali
Anarkali, legendary Mughal court woman (also Nadira or Sharf-un-Nissa), beloved of Prince Salim in folklore; absent from Akbarnama and Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri, first recorded by William Finch, commemorated by her Lahore tomb and Imtiaz Ali Taj's 1922 play.
Anas Al-Sharif (أنس جمال محمود الشريف)
Anas al-Sharif (أنس جمال محمود الشريف), born 1996 in Jabalia, was an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in northern Gaza, killed August 10, 2025 in an Israeli drone strike on a media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital along with five other journalists.
Anas ibn Malik
Anas ibn Malik (أنس بن مالك) was a companion of Muhammad from the Ansar of Medina, serving in his household for ten years and narrating about 2,286 hadith.
Anas Khattab
Anas Khattab (Abu Hamzah, Abu Ahmed Hudud), born 1986, is Syria's Interior Minister since March 2025 and head of the National Security Bureau since July 2026; former HTS security chief, Jabhat al-Nusra founder, first post-Assad intelligence director, delisted by the UN in November 2025.
Anas Sarwar
Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour leader 2021-2026 and former MP for Glasgow Central (2010-2015), now Lord Sarwar and a UK Minister of State; led Labour to its worst Holyrood result in 2026.
Anas Sefrioui
Anas Sefrioui (أنس الصفريوي) is a Moroccan property developer, born in Fès in 1957, who founded Douja Promotion Groupe Addoha in 1988 and built it into Morocco's largest homebuilder through low-cost housing.
Anas Zaidan
Anas Zaidan is a Saudi payments entrepreneur who co-founded YAP, the Dubai digital banking platform launched in 2021, and earlier founded payroll card provider C3 Card in 2007.
Anasse Kazib
Anasse Kazib, French Trotskyist railway worker and SUD-Rail delegate, spokesperson of Révolution Permanente; 2018 SNCF strike figure, failed 2022 presidential candidacy (165 sponsorships), 2027 candidate announced 1 June 2026, facing terrorism-glorification prosecution.
Anastas Mikoyan (Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան)
Anastas Mikoyan (Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան, 1895–1978), Soviet Armenian Politburo member 1935–1966, trade and supply commissar, Khrushchev's nationality-policy reformer, and negotiator who ended the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Anastasi papyri
The Anastasi papyri are nine Ramesside hieratic papyri of ancient Egypt's 19th Dynasty, written around 1200 BC and bought by the British Museum in 1839 from Giovanni Anastasi, the Swedish consul in Egypt.
Anastasia (Ἀναστασία)
Anastasia (Greek Αναστασία, Анастасия in Russian) is a feminine given name from Greek ἀνάστασις, meaning "resurrection". Feminine of Anastasios; spread by the 4th-century martyr Saint Anastasia the Pharmakolytria; common in Orthodox Greece, Russia, and Eastern Europe.
Anastasia Romanovna
Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-Yuryeva (died 1560), first wife and tsaritsa of Ivan IV the Terrible, chosen at a bride-show in 1547; her confirmed mercury poisoning and Romanov dynastic link distinguish her from later namesakes.
Anastasia Soare
Anastasia Soare is a Romanian-born beauty entrepreneur who founded the eyebrow-cosmetics brand Anastasia Beverly Hills in 1997 and remains its majority owner and chief executive officer.
Anastasio Aquino
Anastasio Aquino (1792–1833), also known as Anastasio Mártir Aquino, was a Salvadoran indigenous leader who headed the 1833 Nonualco insurrection against forced recruitment and labor, and was executed after its defeat.
Anastasio Bustamante
Anastasio Bustamante (1780–1853) was a Mexican general and statesman who took power by rebellion against President Vicente Guerrero and held the presidency from 1830 to 1832 and 1837 to 1841.
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Anastasio Somoza Debayle, nicknamed Tachito, Nicaraguan dictator and head of the Guardia Nacional, president 1967-1972 and 1974-1979; enriched his family after the 1972 Managua earthquake, was overthrown by the Sandinistas on July 19, 1979.
Anastasio Somoza García
Anastasio Somoza García was a Nicaraguan dictator who ruled directly or through puppet presidents from 1936 until his assassination in 1956, founding a dynasty that ruled until 1979.
Anastasios Xepapadeas (Αναστάσιος Ξεπαπαδέας)
Anastasios Xepapadeas (Αναστάσιος Ξεπαπαδέας) is a Greek environmental and resource economist known for work on pollution management, economic growth and the environment, and climate policy.
Anastasius
Anastasius (Ἀναστάσιος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 730 until his death in 754. He signed Leo III's decree against icons and was excommunicated by Rome.
Anastasius Bibliothecarius
Anastasius Bibliothecarius, or Anastasius the Librarian (c. 810–c. 878), was a Roman abbot and papal official who briefly stood as antipope in 855 and translated Greek works into Latin.
Anastasius Freylinghausen
Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen (1670–1739) was a German Pietist theologian, pastor, and hymn-writer at Halle whose Geistreiches Gesangbuch became the most influential hymn collection of German Pietism.
Anastasius I
Anastasius I, a Roman and the 39th pope, led the Catholic Church from 399 until his death in 401 and is remembered chiefly for condemning Origen's writings around 400.
Anastasius I Dicorus
Anastasius I Dicorus (c. 430–518), Eastern Roman emperor 491–518, also called Anastasius I; Monophysite emperor who abolished the chrysargyron, reformed coinage in 498, built the Anastasian Wall, and left 320,000 pounds of gold.