| Name : | Period : | Description
: |
| Nabih Berri |
1938 - |
A Lebanese leader.
He joined the movement ... |
| Nabivey Rakhmon |
1930 - |
President of Tajikistan since 1991 after Taji ... |
| Nadeem Aslam |
1966 - |
Novelist.
Nadeem had his first short story ... |
| Nader Shah |
1687 - 1747 |
Shahanshah of Iran
The dizzying rise of N ... |
| Nadia Yassin |
1958 - |
A feminist out to tackle Moroccan taboos.
... |
| Nadim Ahmad |
1681 - 1730 |
A Turkish poet.
He was Caliph Sultan Ahma ... |
| Nadir Ali |
1935 - |
Stories writer
Punjabi literature around w ... |
| Nafi Bin Al Azraq Al Hanfi Al Hanzali Abu Rashid |
- 683 |
The founder of the Azraqi order, branch of t ... |
| Naguib Mahfouz |
1911 - 2006 |
The first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize ... |
| Nahhas Pasha |
1876 - 1965 |
An Egyptian leader who figured dominantly in ... |
| Naim Suleymanoglu |
1967 - |
A Turk, known as the king of Weight lifting. ... |
| Najaf Khan |
1733 - 1782 |
He recovered the city of Agra from the Jats i ... |
| Najah |
- 1060 |
Slave.
The Ziyadid kingdom of Yemen at Zab ... |
| Najibullah Ahmadzai |
1947 - 1996 |
President of Afghanistan 1987. ... |
| Najmuddin Abdul Hasan Ali Bin Daud |
1172 - 1274 |
A famous jurisconsult, a good grammarian and ... |
| Najmuddin Kubra |
1145 - 1221 |
The founder of the Kubrawiyya order.
Najm ... |
| Naqshbandi Muhammad Bin Muhammad Bahauddin Al Bukhari |
1317 - 1389 |
The founder of the Naqshbandi order.
Baha ... |
| Nasar Asmim |
- |
He was the first man to introduce diacritical ... |
| Naseem Bano |
1916 - 2002 |
Bollywood first female superstar known as “be ... |
| Naseem Hamed |
1974 - |
Boxer.
Naseem shot to prominence in the ea ... |
| Naseruddin Qajar |
1831 - 1896 |
Shah of Qajar dynasty of Iran from 1843 to 18 ... |
| Nasiruddin Muhtashim |
- |
He was the person in whose name Khawaja Nasir ... |
| Nasiruddin Qabbacha |
- 1225 |
The ruler of Sindh.
Nasiruddin Qabacha wa ... |
| Nasiruddin Subaktagin |
941 - 997 |
According to some historians he was purchased ... |
| Nasr Abu Zayd |
1944 - 2010 |
The Egyptian scholar who was declared an apos ... |
| Nasrat Parsa |
1969 - 2005 |
Afghan pop star singer
Nasrat had a large ... |
| Nasreddin Hodja |
- c1284 |
The centrepiece of Turkish folk stories.
... |
| Nasreen Huq |
1959 - 2006 |
Bangladeshi women’s activist
Nasreen who w ... |
| Nasr Ibn Sayyar |
663 - 748 |
Governor of Kharasan from 738 to 748 under th ... |
| Nasser Hejazi |
1949 - 2011 |
Iranian soccer legend
One of Iran’s most ... |
| Nasser Hussain |
1968 - |
Skipper of English cricket team.
He was b ... |
| Nassima El Hor |
- |
Moroccan mediator on television.
In her ... |
| Natalia Khussainovna Estemirova |
1959 - 2009 |
Russia’s human rights activist
A researche ... |
| Naushad Ali |
1919 - 2006 |
One of Bollywood’s best-known music maestro.
... |
| Nawab Ali Yavar Jung Bahadur |
1905 - 1976 |
An administrator.
Ali Yavar Jung was the ... |
| Nawab Asif Ud Daulah |
1748 - 1797 |
The ruler of Oudh, son of Nawab Shuja-ud-daul ... |
| Nawab Bahadur Yarjung |
1905 - 1943 |
Born in a rich family, (Hyderabad, India), he ... |
| Nawab Mir Yusuf Ali Khan Salarjang |
1889 - 1949 |
Prime Minister of British princely state of H ... |
| Nawab Shuja Uddaula |
1731 - 1775 |
The Nawab of Oudh.
Nawab Shuja Uddaula who ... |
| Nawab Sikandar Begum |
1817 - 1868 |
Begum of Bhopal
After the demise of her hu ... |
| Nawab Sirajuddaula |
1737 - 1757 |
Nawab of Bengal, India.
Nawab Sirajuddaul ... |
| Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan |
1918 - 2003 |
The politician who battled for democracy agai ... |
| Nawal Al Metawakil |
1962 - |
A Moroccan athlete.
Nawal was the first ... |
| Nawal El Saadawi |
1930 - |
An Egyptian feminist and activist.
Arab w ... |
| Nawaz Sharif |
1949 - |
Politician.
Emerged on Pakistan’s politic ... |
| Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz |
1934 - 2012 |
Saudi Crown Prince
Prince Nayef had been i ... |
| Nazer Muhammad Rashid |
1910 - 1975 |
An Urdu poet, known for his free-verse and au ... |
| Nazia Hassan |
1965 - 2000 |
Asian pop queen.
Nazia a singer of nasal ... |
| Nazik Al Malaika |
1923 - 2007 |
A widely known poet in Arab world
One of A ... |
| Nazim Al Qudsi |
1906 - 1998 |
A Syrian statesman.
Qudsi was the most im ... |
| Nazim Hikmet |
1902 - 1963 |
A Turkish Writer.
While a student of econ ... |
| Nazim Yahaya |
1649 - 1726 |
Turkey's religious poet. His forte was na't, ... |
| Nazir Akbarabadi |
c1730 - 1830 |
An Urdu poet.
Nazir Akbarabadi wrote poem ... |
| Nazir Hussain |
- 1902 |
The leader of the Ahl-e-Hadis, a branch of th ... |
| Necip Fazil Kisakurek |
1905 - 1983 |
A Turkish poet and writer.
In his autobio ... |
| Necmettin Erbakan |
1926 - 2011 |
Turkish Prime Minister
Necmettin Erbakan ... |
| Neslisah Sultan |
1921 - 2012 |
The oldest member of the former Ottoman Empir ... |
| Nesri Husayin Ibn Eyne Beg |
- c1520 |
An Ottoman historian.
Nesri’s Jahan Nama ... |
| Nimat Allah Kirmani |
- 1431 |
The founder of a Sufi order in Iran in the 14 ... |
| Nisar Bazmi |
1925 - 2007 |
One of Pakistan’s most iconic musicians
In ... |
| Nishat Khan |
1960s - |
India’s Sitar player
Nishat Khan has been ... |
| Niyamat Khan |
1670 - 1742 |
commonly known as Sadarang, he introduced kha ... |
| Niyaz Fatahpuri |
1884 - 1966 |
Journalist and publisher.
Niyaz started pu ... |
| Nizam Al Mulk |
1017 - 1092 |
The famous Wazir of Sultan Alp Arslan, second ... |
| Nizami Ganjavi |
1141 - 1209 |
Author
Nizami authored five titles Laila w ... |
| Nizami Uruzi |
12th century - |
His full name was Nizami Uruzi Samarqandi and ... |
| Nizamuddin Aulia |
1236 - 1325 |
The founder of Silsila-e-Nizamia.
Khawaja ... |
| Nizam-U-Mulk Asaf Jah |
1671 - 1748 |
The favourite Turkman Nabob of Emperor Aurang ... |
| Nizar Qabbani |
1923 - 1998 |
A Syrian poet and diplomat.
Nizar Qabbani ... |
| Noor Hassanali |
1918 - 2006 |
President of Trinidad and Tobago
Second pr ... |
| Noor Jehan |
1926 - 2001 |
Singer and actress.
Pakistan’s popularly ... |
| Nooruddeen Hathoom |
1919 - 2000 |
Historian
Prof Hathoom a noted Syrian hist ... |
| Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan |
1914 - 1944 |
Hers is a remarkable chapter in the history o ... |
| Noureddine Morceli |
1970 - |
An Algerian athlete. In 1992, he broke the w ... |
| Nouri Al Maliki |
1950 - |
Exile returned to rise to power
Nouri al-M ... |
| Nuha Al Radi |
1941 - 2004 |
Iraqi ceramist and painter committed to her b ... |
| Nural Hilmi Burhanuddin Bin Muhammad |
1911 - 1969 |
A Malaysian nationalist leader.
He went t ... |
| Nurcholish Madjid |
1939 - 2005 |
Indonesian scholar who was instrumental in pe ... |
| Nureddin Kianouri |
1912 - 1999 |
Activist of the communist movement; Tudeh, in ... |
| Nuri As Said |
1888 - 1958 |
An Iraqi leader and prime minister for fourte ... |
| Nurjahan Begum |
1574 - 1646 |
Nurjahan’s father Mirza Ghiyasuddin came to I ... |
| Nursultan Nazarbayev |
1940 - |
President of Kazakhstan over 16 years who ben ... |
| Nuruddin Abd Ar Rahman Jami |
1414 - 1492 |
The last of the great classical Persian poets ... |
| Nuruddin Farah |
1945 - |
The Somalian writer and the first English lan ... |
| Nuruddin Muhammad Zangi |
1117 - 1173 |
The son of Imad Uddin Zangi, the ruler of Syr ... |
| Nuruddin Pasha |
1873 - |
Governor.
Nuruddin was the son of Field Ma ... |
| Nurul Haq Shah |
- 1662 |
The son of Abdul Haq bin Saifuddin of Delhi ... |
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan |
1948 - 1997 |
The Shahen-shah-e-qawwali from Pakistan.
... |
