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Aqidah (عقيدة)
Aqidah (عقيدة), also Aqeedah, is the Islamic term for creed, the set of core beliefs a Muslim holds with certainty, stated in texts from short formulas to treatises.
Aqif Pasha Biçakçiu
Aqif Pasha Biçakçiu, known as Aqif Pashë Elbasani, was an Albanian statesman (1860–1926) who chaired the Congress of Lushnja and served on the High Council.
Aqiqah
Aqiqah, also known as Aqeeqah or Akika (عقيقة), is the Islamic sacrifice for a newborn, performed on the seventh day after birth with head shaving, naming, and a meal.
Aqit family of Timbuktu
The Aqit family of Timbuktu was a Sanhaja Berber scholarly household that supplied the city's chief judges and most imams of the Sankore mosque in the sixteenth century.
Aqllakuna (chosen women)
The aqllakuna (acllas) were girls chosen by the Inca state for ritual labor, weaving fine cumbi cloth, and political marriage, housed in state buildings called acllahuasis.
Aqllawasi
An aqllawasi, also written acllawasi, was an Inca institution, the "House of the Chosen Women," where secluded girls were trained in textile production and religious service.
Aqqush al-Afram
Aqqush al-Afram (أقوش الأفرم) was a Circassian Mamluk emir and viceroy of Damascus, best known for the 1300 punitive campaign against the Druze of Kisrawan.
AQR
AQR (Applied Quantitative Research) is a quantitative investment management firm founded in 1998 by Cliff Asness and three Goldman Sachs colleagues, headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, managing about $187 billion.
AQR Capital Management
AQR Capital Management, originally Applied Quantitative Research, is a quantitative investment firm founded in 1998 by Cliff Asness and colleagues, managing about $187 billion from Greenwich, Connecticut.
Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi
Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi (اقسنقر البرسقی) was a Turkish Seljuk military commander, shihna of Baghdad and governor of Mosul, who united Aleppo with Mosul before his assassination in 1126.
Aqtay
Aqtay (عقطاي) was a Turkish mamluk officer of Sultan al-Salih Ayyub who helped defeat the Seventh Crusade at Mansura in 1250 and ruled Egypt until his murder in 1254.
Aqtay al-Jamdar
Faris al-Din Aqtay al-Jamdar (أقطاي الجمدار) was a Turkic mamluk of Sultan al-Salih Ayyub who commanded the Bahriyya, fought the Seventh Crusade, and was murdered in 1254.
Aqua Museum
Aqua Museum (アクアミュージアム) is the main aquarium of Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise on Hakkeijima island, Yokohama, Japan. Opened 1993, renewed 2018 with 11 LABO zones; holds 120,000 animals of 700 species, including a 50,000-sardine tank.
Aqua Security Software
Aqua Security Software is an Israeli-founded, US-headquartered cloud native security company founded in 2015, known for its Aqua Platform, which protects cloud-native and container-based applications.
Aqua Tofana
Aqua Tofana, also sold as Manna of St Nicholas, was an arsenic-based poison developed in Sicily around 1630 and sold in Rome and Naples, becoming notorious in a 1659 trial.
Aqualis Partners
Aqualis Partners is a private equity secondaries firm founded in 2025 by Cari Lodge in Darien, Connecticut, buying small LP stakes in the US and Europe.
Aquant, Inc.
Aquant, Inc. is a New York-based software company, founded in 2016 by Shahar Chen and Assaf Melochna, selling AI software that helps manufacturers service complex equipment.
Aquarium Berlin
Aquarium Berlin, the historic zoo aquarium at Budapester Straße 32 next to Berlin Zoo, opened 18 August 1913, holds about 20,000 animals of 1,000 species, and fully reopened in August 2026 after a €10.3 million renovation.
Aquarium Saujana
Aquarium Saujana is an aquarium and pet shop established in 2002 at 54A Jalan BRP 6/11, Bukit Rahman Putra, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia, selling live fish, aquarium supplies, pet food, and pond maintenance; distinct from Saujana Aquarium & Pets Trading in Seri Kembangan.
Aquasition Corp. (later KBS Fashion Group Limited)
Aquasition Corp., later KBS Fashion Group Limited, was a Marshall Islands blank-check company that acquired Chinese menswear maker KBS in 2014 and took the KBS name.
Aquatic and liana flora
Aquatic and liana flora: hydrophytes (waterlilies, lotus, Ruppia) and woody climbing plants (lianas) as grown in botanic garden living collections, notably Kew, Wuhan, Tsukuba, and UBC, for display, research, and ex situ wetland and canopy plant conservation.
Aquila (Roman)
Aquila (Roman): the eagle standard of a Roman legion, adopted as the legion's emblem from the time of Marius (104 BC per Pliny). Carried by the aquilifer, guarded by the primus pilus, kept in a camp shrine; lost eagles at Carrhae and Teutoburg were national traumas.
Aquiline Financial Services
Aquiline Financial Services, also known as Aquiline Capital Partners, is a New York private equity firm founded in 2005 that invests in financial services and technology.
Aquino Rebellion
The Aquino Rebellion was an 1833 indigenous uprising in the State of El Salvador, led by Anastasio Aquino against a restored tribute tax and forced labor.
Aquinoism
Aquinoism is the political identity associated with the Aquino family, a leading Philippine political dynasty beginning with Corazon Aquino, president after the 1986 People Power Revolution.
Aquitanian language
Aquitanian is an extinct ancient language of the area between the Pyrenees, Garonne, and Atlantic, known only from names in Latin inscriptions; it is either the direct ancestor of Basque or its closest relative.
Aqwam al-Masalik
Aqwam al-Masalik (أقوم المسالك) is an Arabic reform treatise by Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi, published in Tunis in 1867 or 1868, arguing for adapting European institutions.
Ar-Rahman (الرحمان)
Ar-Rahman (الرحمان), also written al-Raḥmān, "the Merciful," is one of the principal names of God in Islam, paired with ar-Rahim in the Basmala opening the Quran's surahs.
Arab Academy of Damascus
The Arab Academy of Damascus (مجمع اللغة العربية بدمشق) is Syria's official language academy, founded in 1919 and the oldest Arabic language academy still in existence.
Arab Americans
Arab Americans: a panethnic American group from Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern and North African countries, defined by shared Arabic language and culture; roughly 1.2 million by Census 2000 ancestry data, about 3.7 million by advocacy estimates; first major wave from Ottoman Greater Syria, 1880–1914.