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Ayyubid war of succession (1238–1240)
The Ayyubid war of succession (1238–1240) was a civil war fought after Sultan al-Kamil's death, ending in 1240 when as-Salih Ayyub deposed his brother al-Adil II in Egypt.
Ayyubids
The Ayyubids, named for Ayyub ibn Shadhi, were a Kurdish dynasty founded by Saladin that ruled Egypt and Syria from 1171 until the Mamluk conquest of 1250.
Ayyubids of Aleppo
The Ayyubids of Aleppo (الأيوبيون في حلب) were the Ayyubid dynasty branch ruling Aleppo from Saladin's capture in 1183 to the Mongol conquest of 1260.
Ayyubids of Damascus
The Ayyubids of Damascus (أيوبيو دمشق) were the branch of Saladin's Ayyubid dynasty that ruled Damascus from 1193 until the Mongol occupation of Syria in 1260.
Ayyubids of Hama
The Ayyubids of Hama (أيوبيو حماة) were a branch of the Ayyubid dynasty that ruled the Syrian city of Hama from 1178, when Saladin gave it to his nephew Taqi al-Din Umar, until 1341.
Ayyubids of Homs
The Ayyubids of Homs (الأيوبيون في حمص) were a branch of the Ayyubid dynasty that ruled Homs, Syria, from 1178 until the Mamluk takeover in the 1260s.
Ayyubids of Mayyafariqin
The Ayyubids of Mayyafariqin (الأيوبيون في مايفرقين) were a branch of the Ayyubid dynasty that ruled Mayyafariqin in al-Jazira until the Mongols took the city in 1259–1260, killing its last ruler, al-Kamil Muhammad.
Ayyubids of Yemen
The Ayyubids of Yemen (الأيوبيون في اليمن) were a branch of the Ayyubid dynasty, founded by Saladin's brother Turanshah in 1173, whose six kings ruled Yemen until 1229.
Az-Vc
AZ-VC, formerly invisionAZ Fund, is a Phoenix, Arizona venture capital firm investing in Series A technology companies outside the coastal hubs, led by PayPal veteran Jack Selby.
Aza (Mannean king)
Aza, also spelled Azâ, was king of Mannea, a kingdom south of Lake Urmia in western Iran, reigning from 719 to 716 BC before being killed in battle.
Azad Hind (आज़ाद हिन्द)
Azad Hind (आज़ाद हिन्द), the Provisional Government of Free India, was a Japanese-backed government-in-exile set up by Subhas Chandra Bose in Singapore on 21 October 1943, with the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) as its army, fighting Britain in Burma before its 1945 defeat and Red Fort trials.
Azafaros
Azafaros is a Dutch clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2018 by BioGeneration Ventures, developing the oral azasugar nizubaglustat in Phase 3 trials for GM1 and GM2 gangliosidoses and Niemann-Pick disease Type C.
Azahari Husin
Azahari Husin (Azahari bin Husin), known as Dr. Azahari, was a Malaysian engineer who served as Jemaah Islamiyah's chief bomb maker and masterminded the 2002 Bali bombings.
Azai Nagamasa
Azai Nagamasa (浅井長政, 1545–1573) was a Sengoku daimyo who ruled northern Ōmi Province from Odani Castle, won independence at Norada in 1560, married Oda Nobunaga's sister Oichi, then turned against him and died in 1573.
Azali Assoumani
Azali Assoumani, Comorian colonel and politician, President of the Union of the Comoros (1999-2006, and since 2016); seized power in the April 1999 bloodless coup, won the 2002 election with 75%, and used the 2018 referendum to abolish the rotating presidency and extend term limits.
Azali Babis
Azali Babis (ازلیها) were the followers of Mirza Yahya Subh-i Azal, the conservative Babi faction that split from Baha'u'llah in the 1860s and played a leading role in Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1905 to 1911.
Azam Khan (politician)
Mohammad Azam Khan (born 1948, Rampur) is a Samajwadi Party co-founder, ten-time Uttar Pradesh MLA from Rampur Sadar, and former minister with eight portfolios. Distinguished by 111 criminal cases, six convictions, two Sitapur jail stints, and 2022 and 2025 Assembly disqualifications.
Azamgarh Proclamation
The Azamgarh Proclamation (فرمان بہادر شاہ ظفر) was an 1857 rebel manifesto of the Indian Rebellion, calling zamindars, merchants, and artisans to fight the East India Company and restore Mughal rule.
Azan Faqir
Azan Faqir (আজান ফকীৰ), also known as Ajan Fakir or Ajan Pir, was a Sufi saint of seventeenth-century Assam who preached Islam and composed the Assamese devotional songs called zikirs.
Azanian People's Organisation
The Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is a South African political party founded in April 1978 as a successor to Black Consciousness organizations banned by the apartheid government.
Azar Bigdeli
Azar Bigdeli (Lotf-Ali Beg Azar Bigdeli) was an 18th-century Persian poet and biographical anthologist born in Isfahan, best known for the Atashkade, a celebrated anthology of poets.
Azarah
Azarah, also printed Azaraḫ, is the fifteenth of seventeen early Assyrian "kings who lived in tents" in the Assyrian King List; no inscription or excavation independently attests him.
Azarel Ernesta
Azarel Jolinda Ernesta (born 1984) is a Seychellois politician, lawyer, and former Clerk of the National Assembly; since 28 October 2025 she has been Speaker of the National Assembly of Seychelles and its first female Presiding Officer.
Azariqa
The Azariqa (الأزارقة) were the most militant sect of the Kharijites, founded by Nafi ibn al-Azraq in Basra in 684; they ruled parts of Persia until al-Muhallab destroyed them in 697.
Azarmidokht
Azarmidokht (آذرمیدخت) was a queen regnant of the Sasanian Empire, daughter of Khosrow II and sister of Queen Boran, who ruled for a few months around 630–631 before being dethroned and killed.
Azat movement
The Azat movement (Kazakh for "Freedom") was a Kazakh civil and political movement founded in 1990 during the last years of the Soviet Union, campaigning for independence and the Kazakh language.
Azathoth
Azathoth, the Daemon Sultan, Nuclear Chaos, or Blind Idiot God, is H. P. Lovecraft's mindless outer deity enthroned at the center of ultimate chaos, first named in a 1919 note and central to Cthulhu Mythos interpretation debates.
Azawad
Azawad is the name for northern Mali claimed by Tuareg separatists; the MNLA declared it independent on 6 April 2012 over Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu, but no state recognized it, and the FLA now leads the insurgency.
Azawad Liberation Front
Azawad Liberation Front (FLA, Front de libération de l'Azawad), Tuareg separatist coalition founded 30 November 2024 at Tinzaouatène, Mali; successor to CSP-DPA, led by Alghabass Ag Intalla, seeks Azawad independence and allied with JNIM in the April 2026 offensive.
Azazel (Marvel Comics)
Azazel is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an ancient demon-like mutant with teleportation powers created by Chuck Austen and Sean Phillips in 2003 as the father of Nightcrawler.