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Ahad
Ahad ( fa, احد) ( ar, احد) ( ur, احد) is a Middle Eastern given forename primarily used by Muslims and Jews. It is also used as a family name (surname) (e.g. Oli Ahad). In Arabic Ahad means "one" and is usually used by Muslims when referring to Allah by prefixing Ahad with Al-, i.e. Al-Ahad. Given name * Ahad bint Abdullah (born 1971), Omani royal * Ahad Ha'am, pen name of Asher Ginsberg (1856–1927), Hebrew writer * Ahad Israfil (1972–2019), American shooting survivor * Ahad Pazaj (born 1970), Iranian wrestler * Ahad Raza Mir (born 1993), Pakistani actor Surname * Abdul Ahad (music director) (1918–1996), Bangladeshi musical artist * Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (born 1975), Iraqi journalist * Oli Ahad (1928–2012), Bangladeshi politician * Samia Ahad, Pakistani chef Fictional character * Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, a Levant The Levant () is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahad Ha'am
Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am ( he, אחד העם, lit. 'one of the people', Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of cultural Zionism. With his secular vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in Israel, he confronted Theodor Herzl. Unlike Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, Ha'am strived for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews". Biography Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'am) was born in Skvyra, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) to pious well-to-do Hasidic parents. At eight years old, he began to teach himself to read Russian. His father, Isaiah, sent him to heder until he was 12. When Isaiah became the administrator of a large estate in a village in the Kiev district, he moved the family there and took private tutors for his son, who excelled at his studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
