Shams al-Din
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Shams al-Din (IPA: /ʃamsaddiːn/) (Arabic: شمس الدين, lit. "sun of the faith") is an Arabic personal name or title.
Notable persons with this name are:
10th–13th century
Shams al-Din Altınapa, Seljuk atabeg
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din al-Maqdisi (c. 945–1000), Arab geographer
Shams al-Din Ibn Fallus (1194–1240), Arab Egyptian mathematician
Shams al-Din Muhammad bin Ali, or Suzani Samarqandi (died 1166), Persian poet
Shams al-Din Ildeniz (died c. 1175), atabeg of Azerbaijan
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Muqaddam (died 1188), Zengid governor of Damascus and Ayyubid emir of Baalbek
Shams-ud-din Iltutmish (1192–1236), Muslim Turkic sultan of Delhi
Shamsuddin Sabzwari (died 1247), Sufi missionary in southern Punjab
Shams al-Din Muhammad, or Shams Tabrizi (1185–1248), Persian Sufi mystic
Shams al-Din Lu'lu' al-Amini (died 1251), regent of Aleppo
Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Mas'ud (died 1255), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
Ajall Shams al-Din Omar (1211–1279), provincial governor of Yunnan
Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān (1211–1282), Iraqi Shafi'i Islamic scholar
Shams al-Din Juvayni (died 1285) vizier and sahib-divan under three Mongol Ilkhans
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shahrazuri (died c. 1290), Kurdish physician and historian
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abi Talib al-Sufi al-Ansari al-Dimashqi (1256–1327), Arab geographer
14th–17th century
Shams al-Din Muhammad (1257–1310), imam of the Nizari Isma'ili community
Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi (c. 1250 – c. 1310), astronomer and mathematician from Samarkand
Shamsuddin Firuz Shah (died 1322), sultan of the Bengali kingdom of Lakhnauti
Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi (1256–1327), Arab geographer
Shams al-Din Abu’Abdallah Muhammad ibn’Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf Lawati al-Tanji Ibn Battuta (1304–1368), explorer
Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir (1300–1342), ruler of Kashmir
Ali Shams al-Din I (died 1348), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
Shams al-Din ibn Fazl Allah (died c. 1348), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
Khwaja Shams al-Din 'Ali (died c. 1352), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
Shams ud din, or Shams Tabraiz (missionary) (died 1356), Ismaili saint in India
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah (died 1358), sultan of Bengal
Shams al-Din Ibn Muflih (1308–1361), authority on Hanbali Law
Shams ud-Din Amir Kulal (1278–1370), tribal head, scholar and religious figure in Turkistan
Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah al-Khalili (1320–1380), Syrian astronomer
Shams al-Din al-Kirmani (1317–1384), Sunni scholar
Khwaja Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (1315–1390), Persian lyric poet
Ali Shams al-Din II (died 1428), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
Shams al-Din al-Fanari (1350–1431), Turkish logician, Islamic theologian, and Islamic legal academic
Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah (1419–1436), ruler of Bengal
Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Qutb al-Din (c. 1387 – c.
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