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Asif Ali Zardari (آصف علی زرداری)
Asif Ali Zardari (آصف علی زرداری) is a Pakistani politician of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and the widower of Benazir Bhutto, who served as president from 2008 to 2013 and again since 2024.
Asif Aziz
Asif Aziz, born in Malawi in 1967, is a British property investor who founded Criterion Capital, converting underused central London buildings into hotels and housing, including the Trocadero.
Asif Ghafoor (آصِف غفور)
Asif Ghafoor (آصِف غفور) is a retired three-star Pakistan Army general, 20th Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (December 2016 to January 2020), later Lieutenant General, commissioned in 1988 in the artillery.
Asif Mahmud (আসিফ মাহমুদ সজিব ভূইয়ান)
Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan (আসিফ মাহমুদ সজিব ভূইয়ান), Bangladeshi student leader of the Anti-Discrimination Students' Movement in the July 2024 uprising, adviser (Youth and Sports, LGRD, Labour) in the Yunus interim government, later National Citizen Party spokesperson.
Asilomar AI Principles
The Asilomar AI Principles are a set of 23 guidelines for the safe and beneficial development of artificial intelligence, adopted at the Beneficial AI 2017 conference in Asilomar, California.
Asim ibn Ali ibn Asim al-Taymi
Asim ibn Ali ibn Asim al-Taymi (عاصم بن علي بن عاصم التيمي) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Wasit and Baghdad who died in 836.
Asim ibn Muhammad ibn Zayd
Asim ibn Muhammad ibn Zayd (عاصم بن محمد بن زيد) was a Medinan hadith transmitter and jurist, a great-great-grandson of Caliph Umar, judged trustworthy and cited in Sahih al-Bukhari.
Asim ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
Asim ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab (عاصم بن عمر بن الخطاب) was a son of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and a Medinan hadith narrator who died in 689 CE.
Asim Malik (محمد عاصم ملک)
Muhammad Asim Malik (محمد عاصم ملک) is a Pakistani lieutenant general, 26th Director General of the ISI since 30 September 2024 and concurrently National Security Adviser since April 2025, the first serving ISI chief to hold both posts.
Asim Munir (عاصم منیر) (general)
Asim Munir (عاصم منیر), Pakistani field marshal, Chief of Army Staff since November 2022 and first Chief of Defence Forces; former DG of both ISI and Military Intelligence; elevated after the May 2025 India war.
Asinum
Asinum was a king of Assyria in the early second millennium BC, and was named in Puzur-Sin's inscriptions as a royal claimant contesting the throne.
Ašipu
The ašipu, also spelled Ashipu or Asipu, was a learned exorcist-healer of ancient Mesopotamia, one of five scholarly professions serving temples and the royal court from the early second millennium BC.
Âşir Efendi
Âşir Efendi (1729–1804) was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislâm, head of the religious establishment, from 1798 to 1800 under Selim III, and endowed the Istanbul library that still bears his name.
Asit Kumar Mal
Asit Kumar Mal is an Indian politician from West Bengal who has represented Bolpur in the Lok Sabha since 2019 as a Trinamool Congress member.
Asiya (آسية)
Asiya (آسية), also Asiya bint Muzahim, is the wife of Pharaoh in Islamic tradition, a believer who raised the infant Musa and died a martyr.
Âşık Çelebi
Âşık Çelebi (عاشق چلبی), born Pir Mehmed in 1520 in Prizren, was an Ottoman poet and judge known for the tezkire Meshairu'sh-Shu'ara, completed in 1568.
Aşıkpaşazade
Aşıkpaşazade (عاشق پاشازاده), born Dervish Ahmed around 1400 in Amasya, was an Ottoman dervish and chronicler whose Tevarih-i Al-i Osman, completed in 1484, is among the oldest narrative histories of the Ottoman state.
Asjad Raza Khan
Asjad Raza Khan (Muhammad Munawwar Raza Muhamid, born 1970, Bareilly) is an Indian Barelvi scholar, son and successor of Akhtar Raza Khan, Chief Qadi of India at Markazi Dar al-Qada and chair of All India Jamaat Raza e Mustafa.
Askari (عسكري)
Askari (عسكري, from Arabic/Swahili for soldier): locally recruited African soldiers and police in European colonial forces, notably the German Schutztruppe of East Africa, Italian ascari of Eritrea and Somalia, and the King's African Rifles.
Askari Mirza
Askari Mirza was the third son of the first Mughal emperor Babur, born in Kabul around 1516, who governed Multan and Qandahar but never reigned as emperor.
AskBio (Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc.)
AskBio, or Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, is a Durham, North Carolina biotechnology company founded in 2001 by Jude Samulski that develops AAV gene therapies and was acquired by Bayer in 2020 for $2 billion.
Askia al-Hajj
Askia al-Hajj was a ruler of the Songhai Empire who took the throne on his father Askia Daoud's death in 1582 and was deposed in 1586, replaced by Muhammad Bani.
Askia Dawud
Askia Dawud was emperor of the Songhai Empire in West Africa from 1549 to 1582, restoring the empire to the standing it held under Askia Muhammad.
Askia dynasty
The Askia dynasty (أسكيا) was the Muslim ruling line of the Songhai Empire, founded by Askia Muhammad in 1493 and ended by the Moroccan conquest of 1591.
Askia Ishaq I
Askia Ishaq I was a ruler of the Songhai Empire from 1539 to 1549, described as ruthless and remembered for extortion of merchant cities and friction with Morocco.
Askia Ishaq II
Askia Ishaq II (Ishaq II ibn Dawud) was a ruler of the Songhai empire from 1588 to 1591, defeated by a Moroccan army at the battle of Tondibi in 1591.
Askia Ismail
Askia Ismail (أسكيا إسماعيل) was a ruler of the Songhai Empire who gained the throne in 1537 during the succession struggle among Askia Muhammad's sons.
Askia Muhammad Bani
Askia Muhammad Bani, also recorded as Muhammad IV Bano, was a ruler of the Songhai Empire who reigned from 1586 to 1588, succeeded by his brother Askia Ishaq II.
Askia Muhammad I
Askia Muhammad I (Askia Muhammad Ture), known as Askia the Great, ruled the Songhai Empire from 1493 until his deposition in 1528, founding the Askia dynasty.
Askia Muhammad I's conquest of Agadez
Askia Muhammad I's conquest of Agadez was the Songhai emperor's 1501–2 capture of Agadez, capital of the Tuareg sultanate of Air, followed by a second campaign in 1516.