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Ayoub Khan
Ayoub Khan, independent MP for Birmingham Perry Barr since July 2024, barrister and former Liberal Democrat councillor who co-founded the Independent Alliance of pro-Palestinian MPs and later joined Your Party.
Aysen Nikolaev
Aysen Nikolaev is a Russian politician who has served as Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), reporting regularly to President Vladimir Putin on the republic's economy and infrastructure.
Ayub Khan
Muhammad Ayub Khan was a Pakistani military officer and statesman who became the first Pakistani army commander-in-chief in 1951 and ruled as President from 1958 to 1969.
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (أيوب سليمان جالو), known to Europeans as Job ben Solomon, was a Fulani Muslim scholar from Bundu, Senegambia, enslaved in Maryland and freed through English supporters.
Ayudha Puja (आयुध पूजा)
Ayudha Puja (आयुध पूजा), also called Ayudha Pooja or Shastra Puja, is a Hindu rite on Navaratri's ninth day, when tools, vehicles, machines, and books are cleaned, decorated, and worshipped.
Ayuka Khan
Ayuka Khan (Аюка-хан), also Ayuki Khan, was the Torghut ruler of the Kalmyk Khanate on the lower Volga from 1669 to 1724, under whom it reached its zenith.
Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan
Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan (Аюурбарбад), temple name Renzong, was the fourth Yuan emperor of China and eighth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, reigning 1311 to 1320.
Ayutthaya Kingdom
The Ayutthaya Kingdom was a Siamese kingdom centered on the city of Ayutthaya, the second capital of Siam, ruling from about 1350 until its destruction in 1767.
Ayutthaya–Sukhothai wars
The Ayutthaya–Sukhothai wars were a series of campaigns fought mainly in the 1370s between the kingdoms of Ayutthaya and Sukhothai, ending in 1378 with Sukhothai's submission to Ayutthaya.
Ayutthaya's first sack of Angkor
Ayutthaya's first sack of Angkor (ការប្លង់អង្គរដោយអយុធ្យា) is a reported Siamese attack on the Khmer capital of Angkor, traditionally dated 1352–53, though historians treat it as unproven.
Ayvu Rapyta
Ayvu Rapyta, meaning "the foundation of the word," is a collection of sacred cosmogonic chants of the Mbyá Guarani, transcribed by León Cadogan and published in 1959.
Ayyab
Ayyab, also spelled Ayab, was a Levantine vassal ruler of the mid-fourteenth century BC, known from the Amarna letters as the writer of letter EA 364 to the Egyptian king.
Ayyankali
Ayyankali (അയ്യങ്കാളി, 1863 to 1941) was a Pulaya social reformer from Travancore, in present-day Kerala, who led campaigns for Dalit rights to roads, schools, and land.
Ayyappan (അയ്യപ്പൻ)
Ayyappan (അയ്യപ്പൻ), also called Sastha or Manikandan, is a celibate Hindu deity of Kerala, worshipped at Sabarimala as son of Shiva and Mohini-Vishnu, center of a pilgrimage of about 10 million devotees annually and of the women's-entry litigation.
Ayyavole 500
The Ayyavole 500 (ಐಮೂರುವರು) was a medieval South Indian merchant guild of itinerant traders based at Aihole, Karnataka, most active in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Ayyavole Five Hundred
The Ayyavole Five Hundred (ಅಯ್ಯಾವಳಿ ಐನೂಱೱುವರ), also called the Ainnurruvar, was a medieval South Indian merchant guild of itinerant traders whose inscriptions span south India and Sri Lanka.
Ayyubid army
The Ayyubid army (الجيش الأيوبي) was the composite military of the Ayyubid sultanate, formed under Salah al-Din from 1168 and combining Kurdish, Turkish, and mamluk troops.
Ayyubid coinage
Ayyubid coinage (عملة الأيوبيين) is the money struck by the Ayyubid sultans of Egypt and Syria from Salah al-Din's founding of the dynasty in 1171, in gold dinars, silver dirhams, and copper fulus.
Ayyubid conquest of Egypt and end of the Fatimid caliphate
The Ayyubid conquest of Egypt and end of the Fatimid caliphate (إسقاط الدولة الفاطمية) saw Saladin, on Nur al-Din's order, replace Fatimid rule with Abbasid allegiance in 1171.
Ayyubid conquest of Yemen
The Ayyubid conquest of Yemen (فتح اليمن) was the 1173–1174 campaign in which Saladin sent his brother Turan Shah to overthrow Yemen's ruling dynasties and attach the country to the Ayyubid state.
Ayyubid conquest of Zabid
The Ayyubid conquest of Zabid was the storming of Zabid in Yemen in May 1174 by an Ayyubid army under Turan Shah, Saladin's brother, ending the Mahdid dynasty.
Ayyubid dynasty (الأيوبيون)
Ayyubid dynasty (Banū Ayyūb, الأيوبيون), Kurdish Muslim dynasty founded by Saladin, ruling Egypt, Syria, the Jazira, and Yemen from 1171 until the Mamluk takeover of 1250 and the Mongol conquest of 1260.
Ayyubid family confederation
The Ayyubid family confederation (نظام الحكم الأيوبي بين أفراد الأسرة) was the system dividing Ayyubid territory among Saladin's relatives as hereditary principalities under a senior sultan, from 1193.
Ayyubid invasion of Nubia
The Ayyubid invasion of Nubia (غزو الأيوبيين للنوبية) was a December 1172 campaign by Turan Shah, Saladin's brother, against Christian Makuria, capturing the fortress of Ibrim.
Ayyubid iqta reform
The Ayyubid iqta reform (إصلاح الأقطار الأيوبي) was the reorganization of army pay and land-revenue assignments carried out by Saladin and his successors in Egypt and Syria from 1169.
Ayyubid navy
The Ayyubid navy (الأسطول الأيوبي) was the war fleet of the Ayyubid state, rebuilt in Egypt by Saladin after 1169 to raid Crusader shipping and defend Acre during the Third Crusade, lasting until 1250.
Ayyubid principality of Baalbek
The Ayyubid principality of Baalbek (إمارة بعلبك الأيوبية) was a hereditary appanage at Baalbek in the Beqaa valley, held by Ayyubid princes within Damascus's sphere from 1174.
Ayyubid principality of Kerak
The Ayyubid principality of Kerak (إمارة الكرك الأيوبية) was the Ayyubid lordship over Karak castle in southern Transjordan, from its capture by Saladin in 1188 until 1263.
Ayyubid principality of Yemen
The Ayyubid principality of Yemen (الدولة الأيوبية في اليمن) was the branch of the Ayyubid dynasty that ruled Yemen from 1173 until 1229, founded by Turanshah, brother of Saladin.
Ayyubid vassal principality of Hamah
The Ayyubid vassal principality of Hamah (إمارة حماة الأيوبية) was a hereditary Ayyubid emirate over the Syrian city of Hamah, granted by Saladin and lasting until the mid-fourteenth century.