Zayn ad-Din
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Zayn ad-Din (Arabic: زين الدين, also transliterated as Zinedine, Zeyneddin, Zain-ud-Din, Zainuddin, Zainaddin, etc.) is an Arabic name meaning "grace of the religion" and may refer to:
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Zayn al-Din Ali Kutchek (died 1168): son of Begtakin, Atabeg of Erbil and father of Muzaffar al-din Gokbori
Zayn al-Din Ali ibn Naja (fl. 1160s–1180s), Hanbali preacher
Zayn al-Din al-Amidi (died 1312), blind Iraqi scholar who invented a method for the blind to read
Zayn al-Din Azraqi: Abul-Mahāsin Abu Bakr Zaynuddin Azraqi, or just Azraqi (died 1072), Persian poet
Al-Ashraf Zein al-Din Abu al-Ma'ali ibn Shaban, or just Al-Ashraf Sha'ban (1353/54-1377), Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
Zainuddin, 15th-century Bengali poet
Zainuddin bin Maidin (1939-2018), Malaysian politician
Zinedine Ferhat (born 1993), Algerian footballer
Zayn al-Din Gorgani (1040–1136), Persian court physician
Al-Salih Salah Zein al-Din Hajji II, or just Al-Salih Hajji (died c. 1389), Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
Zainuddin M.Z. (1952-2011), an Indonesian Islamic preacher, da'i, and politician.
Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili (1506–1558), Shi'ite cleric and martyr
Zayn al-Din Kitbugha: Al-Malik al-Adil Zayn-ad-Din Kitbugha Ben Abd-Allah al-Mansuri al-Turki al-Mughli, or just Al-Adil Kitbugha (died 1297), Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
Zinédine Machach (born 1996), French footballer
Zainuddin Makhdoom II (1531-1583), Indian Islamic lawyer and author
Sheikh Zainuddin, Bengali artist who rose to prominence during the British Raj
Zineddine Mekkaoui (born 1987), Algerian footballer
Zain al-Din Muhammad Abdul Hady, or just Zain Abdul Hady (born 1956), Egyptian information scientist and novelist
Zainudin Nordin (born 1963), Singaporean politician
Zine Eddine Sekhri, Algerian Paralympian athlete
Zainuddin Shirazi (c. 1302 – c. 1370), Indian Sufi saint
Zinedine Soualem (born 1957), French film actor
Zaynitdin Tadjiyev (born 1977), Uzbek footballer
Zayn al-Din Qaraja (c.
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