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Abbas

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Abbas may refer to:

People[edit]

  • Abbas (name), list of people with the name, including:
    • Abbas ibn Ali (645–680), popularly known as Hazrat-e-Abbas, the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (the first imam in Shia Islam)
    • Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (567–653), uncle of Muhammad
    • Abbas ibn Firnas (810–887), an Andalusian polymath, mathematician, physician, astronomer, inventor, poet, and reported to have experimented with a form of flight
    • Abbas the Great (1571–1629), Fifth Safavid Shah of Iran (r. 1587–1629)
    • Wazir Abbas (Died 1545), Grand Vizier of the Adal Sultanate
    • Abbas II of Persia (1632–1666), Seventh Safavid Shah of Iran (r. 1642–1666)
    • Abbas I of Egypt (1812–1854), founder of the reigning dynasty of Egypt and Sudan at the time (r. 1849���1854)
    • Abbas II of Egypt (1874–1944), last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (r. 1892–1914)
    • Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935), president of the Palestinian National Authority
    • Abbas (actor) (born 1975), Indian actor
    • Abbas, one half of the Indian filmmaking duo Abbas–Mustan

Places[edit]

Algeria[edit]

Azerbaijan[edit]

Iraq[edit]

Iran[edit]

Khuzestan Province[edit]

Lorestan Province[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

In English place-names the affix "Abbas" denotes former ownership by an abbey.

Other uses[edit]

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