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Asfar ibn Shirawayh
Asfar ibn Shirawayh (اسفار بن شیرویه) was a military leader from Gilan who ruled northern Iran as a Samanid governor and then independent malik before his fall in 931.
Asgard
Asgard (Old Norse Ásgarðr, 'Enclosure of the Æsir') is the Norse-mythology fortress home of the Æsir gods, seat of Valhalla, reached from Midgard by the rainbow bridge Bifröst, with a giant-built, unfinished protective wall.
Asgard (comics)
Asgard is a fictional realm in Marvel Comics, home of the Norse gods and one of the Nine Realms, introduced with Thor in Journey into Mystery #83 in 1962.
Ash Alizadeh
Ash Alizadeh (Arash A. Alizadeh) is an American physician-scientist and biotechnology founder, a Stanford oncology professor who developed CAPP-Seq and CIBERSORT and co-founded Foresight Diagnostics.
Ash Carter
Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter (1954–2022), American physicist and 25th U.S. Secretary of Defense (2015–2017) under Obama; also Deputy Secretary, weapons buyer, Nunn-Lugar implementer, Harvard Belfer Center director.
Ash Kalra
Ash Kalra is an American Democratic politician in the California State Assembly, first elected in 2016 as the first Indian American to serve in the California Legislature.
Ash Sarkar
Ash Sarkar (born 1992) is a British journalist, lecturer, and communist political commentator, contributing editor at Novara Media, famous for the 2018 'I'm literally a communist' Piers Morgan clip and author of the 2025 bestseller Minority Rule.
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent in the Western churches, when Christians receive blessed ashes on the forehead or head as a sign of mortality and repentance.
Ash'ari school
The Ash'ari school (الأشعرية) is a Sunni school of speculative theology founded in the 870s by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari of Basra to defend Sunni creed with rational argument.
Ashakhet I
Ashakhet I was a Memphite priest of the Ptah cult in the early Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt, known from the genealogy on Serapeum stele Louvre 96 and dated to the reign of Amenemnisu.
Ashama ibn Abjar
Ashama ibn Abjar, called An-Najashi or the Negus, was the Christian king of Aksum who gave shelter to the first Muslim emigrants from Mecca around 615 CE and died in 630.
Asharid-apal-Ekur
Asharid-apal-Ekur was a king of Assyria who reigned two years, 1075–1074 BC, between his father Tiglath-pileser I and his brother Ashur-bel-kala, and left no royal inscriptions.
Ashayet
Ashayet, also read Ashait, was a queen consort of Mentuhotep II in Eleventh Dynasty Egypt, buried in a shaft tomb at his Deir el-Bahari temple.
Ashdoda
The Ashdoda is an Iron Age clay figurine from Ashdod depicting a seated goddess whose body merges into her chair, a hallmark of early Philistine religion.
Ashduni-yarim
Ashduni-yarim (Ašdūni-arim) was an early Old Babylonian ruler of the Mesopotamian city of Kish, known from royal inscriptions describing an eight-year war and building works.
Asheem Chandna
Asheem Chandna is an American venture capitalist and general partner at Greylock Partners, which he joined in 2003, known for early-stage investments in Palo Alto Networks, AppDynamics, and Rubrik.
Asher (אָשֵׁר)
Asher (אָשֵׁר, "happy one") is the eighth son of Jacob, born to Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and the ancestor of an Israelite tribe that settled northern Canaan's coastal plain.
Asher Biotherapeutics (Asher Bio)
Asher Biotherapeutics, also known as Asher Bio, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in South San Francisco in 2019, developing cis-targeted cytokine immunotherapies for cancer, including the lead IL-2 drug etakafusp alfa.
Asherah
Asherah (Ugaritic Athirat, Hebrew asherah) is a West Semitic goddess, wife of El at Ugarit and mother of the gods; in the Hebrew Bible the word mostly names a wooden cult object, and eighth-century BCE inscriptions pairing Yahweh with his asherah fuel an ongoing consort-versus-symbol debate.
Asherah pole
Asherah pole (Hebrew asherah, plural asherim): wooden pole or sacred tree symbolizing the goddess Asherah in ancient Israelite religion, attested in the Hebrew Bible and 8th-century BCE Kuntillet Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom inscriptions; debated as goddess versus Yahweh's cult object.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, retired Pakistani general, Chief of Army Staff 2007-2013 after heading ISI from 2004; led Operations Rah-i-Rast and Rah-i-Nijat, shifted army doctrine to counterinsurgency, received a three-year extension in 2010, succeeded by Raheel Sharif.
Ashfaqulla Khan
Ashfaqulla Khan (1900-1927), also known by pen name Hasrat, was an Indian Muslim revolutionary and Urdu poet of the Hindustan Republican Association who co-organized the 1925 Kakori train robbery with Ram Prasad Bismil and was hanged by the British on 19 December 1927.
AshGrove Capital
AshGrove Capital is a London-based pan-European specialty lender founded in 2019 by Jonathon Ferguson, Phil Fretwell, and Ilkka Rantanen, lending €10–50 million to European B2B software and services companies.
Ashhab ibn Abd al-Aziz
Ashhab ibn Abd al-Aziz (أشهب بن عبد العزيز) was an Egyptian Maliki jurist, one of Malik ibn Anas's great Egyptian students, who died in 204 AH.
Ashigaru (足軽)
Ashigaru (足軽), literally "light foot," were Japanese foot soldiers who grew from medieval raiders into the weapon-specialized Sengoku infantry, notably musket units, and became the lowest samurai rank in the Edo period until abolition in the Meiji era.
Ashik Pasha
Ashik Pasha (عاشق پاشا) was an early fourteenth-century Anatolian Sufi poet, author of the Garibname, a large masnavi in Western Turkish. He died in Kirshehir in 1332.
Ashik Siddique
Ashik Siddique, American democratic socialist organizer, DSA National Co-Chair since 2023 with Megan Romer, and research analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies' National Priorities Project studying military spending.
Ashikaga clan
The Ashikaga clan (足利氏) was a prominent eastern Japanese warrior family whose head, Ashikaga Takauji, founded the Muromachi shogunate and held the shogun's office from 1338.
Ashikaga Mochiuji
Ashikaga Mochiuji (足利持氏, 1398–1439) was a Muromachi-period military commander who served as the fourth Kamakura kubō from 1409 until 1439, when, defeated after rebelling against the shogunate, he was forced to take his own life.
Ashikaga School
The Ashikaga School (足利学校) was a Confucian academy in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, regarded as the oldest surviving school in the country and closed in 1872.