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Baha' al-Din

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ800226
Source-derived summary

Baha al-Din or Bahaa ad-Din (Arabic: بهاء الدين, romanized: Bahāʾ al-Dīn, lit. 'splendour of the faith'), or various variants like Bahauddin, Baha eddine or (in Turkish) Bahattin, may refer to:

Surname

A. K. M. Bahauddin (born 1954), Bangladeshi politician and the Member of Parliament from Comilla

Salaheddine Bahaaeddin (born 1950), Kurdish Iraqi politician

Middle name

AFM Bahauddin Nasim (born 1961), Bangladeshi politician and former Member of Parliament from Madaripur

Given name

Bahaedin Adab (1945–2007), Iranian Kurdish politician and engineer

Bahauddin Baha (born 1941), contemporary Afghan judge

Bahauddin Dagar (born 1970), Indian musician

Mufti Baha-ud-din Farooqi (1927–2014), contemporary Indian judge

Bahaddin Gaziyev (born 1965), Azerbaijani journalist

Rafic Hariri, full name: Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri (1944–2005), Lebanese businessman and politician

Qawwal Bahauddin Khan (1934–2006), Pakistani musician

Bahattin Köse (born 1990), Turkish-German footballer

Behaeddin Shakir, aka Bahattin Şakir (1874–1922), Turkish political activist

Bahattin Sofuoğlu (1978–2002), Turkish motor cycle racer

Bahattin Sofuoğlu (2003) (born 2003), Turkish motor cycle racer

Religious honorific name (laqab)

Baha al-Din al-Muqtana (died c. 1042), founder of the Druze Faith

Baha al-Din Qaraqush (died 1201), military commander under Saladin

Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (1145–1234), jurist and scholar, biographer of Saladin

Baha-ud-din Zakariya (c.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Baha' al-Din” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Baha', al-Din and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954, 1950, 1961, 1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Baha', al-Din and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q800226. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1954, 1950, 1961 and 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from Baha' al-Din” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.