Arif or Aref may refer to:
*Arif, a local name for the
Rif
The Rif or Riff (, ), also called Rif Mountains, is a geographic region in northern Morocco. This mountainous and fertile area is bordered by Cape Spartel and Tangier to the west, by Berkane and the Moulouya River to the east, by the Mediterrane ...
mountains in northern Morocco
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Arif (given name)
Arif ( ar, عارف also spelled Aref in Pashto, Persian & Urdu, or Arief in Indonesian and Malay) is an Arabic male given name that is common in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It later spread to other Muslim countries, such as Afghanis ...
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Arif (surname) Aref
*Hassan Aref, Egyptian physicist
*Mohammad Reza Aref, Iranian politician, former vice-president of Iran
* Yassin M. Aref, American terror suspect
Arif
*Mahmud Arif, (1909 – 2001) Saudi Arabian poet
*Abdul Salam Arif and Abdul Rahman Arif, ...
*‘arif, a concept in Sufism, see
Ma'rifa
Maʿrifa (Arabic: “interior knowledge”) is the mystical knowledge of God or the “higher realities” that is the ultimate goal of followers of Sufism. Sufi mystics came to maʿrifa by following a spiritual path that later Sufi thinkers categ ...
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Arif gang
The Arifs are a South East London-based Turkish people, Turkish criminal organization heavily involved in armed robbery, drug trafficking and other racketeering-related activities within London's underworld since the late 1960s. Following the d ...
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