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Ilyas ( ar, إلياس) is a form of the masculine given name
Elias
Elias is the Greek equivalent of Elijah ( he, אֵלִיָּהוּ ''ʾĒlīyyāhū''; Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ ''Eliyā''; Arabic: الیاس Ilyās/Elyās), a prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BC, mentioned in several holy ...
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Elijah
Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) was, according to the Books of ...
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Notable people with this given name
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Ilyas son of Mudar, ancestor of
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...
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Muhammad Ilyas Qadri
Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri ( ur, ), known as ''Attar'' (), is a Sufi Islamic preacher, Muslim scholar and founding leader of Dawat-e-Islami. He is based in Karachi, Pakistan. Qadri is the author of Faizan-e-Sunnat.
Family background
His ...
, Founder of
Dawat-e-Islami
Dawat-e-Islami ( ur, دعوتِ اسلامی) is a Sunni Islamic organization based in Pakistan. It has several Islamic educational institutions around the world.
In addition to local charity efforts, Dawat-e-Islami offers online courses in ...
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Ilyas Babar
Mohammed Ilyas Babar (1926 – 30 July 2002) was an Indian athletic coach.
Babar was born in Gulbarga in Karnataka. He became an outstanding university athlete in Hyderabad and was the state champion in 110m hurdles between 1950 and 1957, an ...
(1926-2002), Indian athletic coach
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Ilyas Ahmed (disambiguation), multiple people
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İlyas Demir (born 1985), Turkish martial artist
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Ilyas Gorchkhanov (1967-2005), Russian rebel leader
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Ilyas Gul
Ilyas Gull (born 1 January 1968) is a Pakistani-born Hong Kong cricketer. He was named captain of the Hong Kong cricket team for the 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament, when Tim Smart resigned the captaincy.
Gull was born o ...
(born 1968), Pakistani cricketer
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Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim
Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim ( dv, އައްޝައިހް އިލިޔާސް ޙުސައިން އިބްރާހީމް, born 5 May 1957) is a Maldivian politician.
He was an official in the Ministry of Atolls Development from 1990 to 2004, then a member of the ...
(born 1957), Maldivian politician
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İlyas Kahraman (born 1976), Turkish footballer
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Ilyas Kanchan
Idris Ali (born 24 December 1956; known by his stage name Ilias Kanchan) is a Bangladeshi actor and activist. He appeared in more than 350 films during the 1980s and 1990s. He earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor for his role in t ...
, Bangladeshi actor
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Ilyas Kashmiri
Ilyas Kashmiri, also referred to as Maulana Ilyas Kashmiri, Mufti Ilyas Kashmiri and Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri (10 February 1964 – 3 June 2011), was a Pakistani ex-Special Forces Islamist guerrilla insurgent who fought against India in K ...
(1964-2011), Pakistani Al-Qaeda operative
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Ilyas Shah Shamsuddin, first
Sultan of Bengal
The Sultanate of Bengal (Middle Bengali language, Middle Bengali: শাহী বাঙ্গালা ''Shahī Baṅgala'', Classical Persian: ''Saltanat-e-Bangālah'') was an empire based in Bengal for much of the 14th, 15th and 16th centu ...
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Ilyas Shurpayev
Ilyas Imranovich Shurpayev (russian: Ильяс Имранович Шурпаев; 25 July 1975, Makhachkala – 21 March 2008, Moscow) was a Russian television journalist and Channel One (Russia) correspondent.
Life and career
Shurpayev was born ...
(1975-2008), Russian journalist
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İlyas Şükrüoğlu
İlyas Şükrüoğlu (born 1966) is a Turkish Olympic wrestler competing in the light flyweight (-48 kg) division. He holds two European silver medals and one gold medal at the Mediterranean Games. He was born as an ethnic Turk in Bulgaria, and ...
(born 1966), Turkish freestyle wrestler
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İlyas Tüfekçi
İlyas Tüfekçi (born February 3, 1960 in Istanbul) is a retired football striker and later manager.
During his club career, Tüfekçi played in Germany and Turkey for Stuttgart, Schalke, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Zeytinburnuspor
Zeytin ...
(born 1960), Turkish footballer
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Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi
Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement, in 1925, in Mewat province.
Early life and education
Muhammad ...
, founder of Tablighi Jamaat
Notable people with this surname
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Adnan Ilyas
Adnan "Sulehri" Ilyas (born December 30, 1984) is a Pakistani-born cricketer who plays for the Oman national cricket team. He has previously played for the Oman Under-17s and now plays for the senior Omani cricket team.
In international youth cri ...
(born 1984), Omani cricketer
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Ihab Ilyas
Ihab Francis Ilyas (born May 13, 1973) is a computer scientist who works in data science. He is currently a professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He also leads the Knowle ...
(born 1973), Egyptian-Canadian professor
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Muhammad Ilyas (disambiguation) Mohammad or Muhammad Ilyas may refer to:
* Mohammad Ilyas (cricketer), former Pakistani Test cricketer
* Mohammad Ilyas (cricketer, born 1996), Pakistani cricketer for Lahore Blues
* Mohammad Ilyas (cricketer, born 1999), Pakistani cricketer for Pe ...
, several people
Other uses
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İlyas Bey Mosque
İlyas Bey Mosque is a historical Islamic religious building at Milet in Didim district of Aydın Province, western Turkey. It was built in 1403 by Ilyas Bey (1402–1421), ruler of the Turkish Menteshe emirate.
Architecture
The mosque is part o ...
, a cultural heritage mosque of Turkey
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İlyas, Burdur
İlyas is a village in the Burdur district of Burdur Province
Burdur Province ( tr, ) is a province of Turkey, located in the southwest and bordering Muğla and Antalya to the south, Denizli to the west, Afyon to the north, and Isparta to t ...
, a village in Turkey
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Ilyasi Mosque, mosque in
Abbottabad
Abbottabad (; Urdu, Punjabi language(HINDKO dialect) آباد, translit=aibṭabād, ) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 40th largest city in Pakistan and fourth ...
, Pakistan
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Islamic view of Elijah
Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) was, according to the Books of ...
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Arabic masculine given names
Turkish masculine given names