Nur al-Din ( ar, translit=nūr ad-dīn, نور الدين) is a male Arabic
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
, translating to "light of the religion", ''nūr'' meaning "light" and ''
dīn
Dīn ( ar, دين, Dīn, also anglicized as Deen) is an Arabic word with three general senses: judgment, custom, and religion. It is used by both Muslims and Arab Christians.
In Islamic terminology, the word refers to the way of life Muslims ...
'' meaning "religion". More recently, the name has also been used as a surname.
There are many Romanized spelling variants of the name. The element نور can be spelled ''Nur'', ''Noor'', ''Nor'', ''Nour or Nuer. ''The element دين can be spelled either ''Din'', ''Deen'' or ''Dine''. The
definite article in front of the "
sun letter" ''d'' is realized only as a gemination /dː/, the Arabic pronunciation being /nuːrudːiːn/.
Syntactically, the name is an ''iḍāfah'' (
genitive construction
In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as the possession of one by another (e.g. "John's jacket"), or some other type of connection (e ...
), in
full vocalization ''nūru d-dīni''. Consequently, depending on the system of Romanization, the definite article can be rendered as ''al'', ''ad'', ''ud'', ''ed'' or ''d''.
Among the variant romanized spellings in common use are ''Nuraddin'', ''Nureddin'', ''Noureddin'', ''Noureddine'', ''Nooradeen'', ''Nordeen'', ''Nourdin'', ''Noordine'', ''Nordine'', ''Nuradin'', ''Nurdin'', ''Nooruldeen''; scientific transliterations are ''Nur ad-Din'', ''Nur-ud-Din'', ''Nur al-Din'', etc.
Given name
Medieval and up to 1800
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Nur ad-Din, atabeg of Aleppo (1118–1174), member of the Zengid dynasty, ruler of the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire
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Nur al-Din Muhammad
Nur ad-Din Muhammad (r. 1175–1185 CE) was a member of the Artuqid dynasty, and the son of Fahkr al-Din Qara Arslan (Kara Arslan).
Life
Nur ad-Din Muhammad was the Artuqid ruler of the Diyar Bakr, the northernmost region of Mesopotamia. In 1179 ...
(died 1185), member of the Artuqid dynasty
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Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji
Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji () (also spelled Nur al-Din Ibn Ishaq al-Betrugi and Abu Ishâk ibn al-Bitrogi) (known in the West by the Latinized name of Alpetragius) (died c. 1204) was an Iberian-Arab astronomer and a Qadi in al-Andalus. Al-Biṭrūjī ...
(also known as Alpetragius) (died ca. 1204), Arab astronomer and philosopher
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Nur al-Din Arslan Shah I
Nur al-Din Arslan Shah I (or Arslan Shah) was the Zengid Emir of Mosul 1193–1211. He was successor of Izz al-Din Mas'ud.
See also
* Zengid dynasty
The Zengid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Oghuz Turkic origin, which ruled parts of the Le ...
(reigned 1193–1211), Zengid emir of Mosul
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Nure Sofi Nûre Sûfi Bey ( tr, Nureddin Bey) was the founder of Karamanid dynasty, a Turkic dynasty which ruled part of Anatolia in the 14th and 15th centuries as a rival of the Ottoman Empire. He was the son of Hodja Sad al-Din ( tr, Hoca Sadeddin) who had ...
(died ca. 1257), Turkish religious leader
*Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd al-'Azīz
Ibn al-Qamar (1326–1398), Tunisian Berber prince
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Sheikh Noor-ud-din Wali (1377–1440), Kashmiri saint of the rishi order
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Nuruddin Sikandar Shah (r. 1481),
Sultan of Bengal
*Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman
Jami (1414–1492), Persian poet
*Nur ad-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sultan Muhammad al-Hirawi al-Qari, known as
Ali al-Qari
Nur ad-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sultan Muhammad al-Hirawi al-Qari ( ar, نور الدين أبو الحسن علي بن سلطان محمد الهروي القاري; d. 1605/1606), known as Mulla Ali al-Qari () was an Islamic scholar.
He was b ...
(died 1605), Afghan Islamic scholar
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Nuruddin ar-Raniri
Nuruddin ibn Ali ar-Raniri ( ar, نورالدين بن علي الرانيري) (also transliterated Nur ud-Din ar-Raniri / Randeri, died 1658) was an Islamic mystic and scholar from Rander in Surat province of Gujarat, in India, who worked ...
(died 1658), Indian Islamic scholar
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Noor Mohammad Nooruddin
Syedna Noor Mohammed Nooruddin ( ar, نور محمد نور الدين) was the 37th al-Dai al-Mutlaq (vicegerent) of the Dawoodi Bohra Community, a subsect of Shia Islam.
Early life
Noor Mohammad Nooruddin was born in Jamnagar in the era of his ...
(died 1719), Dai-al-Mutlaq (vicegerent) of the Dawoodi Bohra Community
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Nur al-Din Nimatullah al-Jazayiri
Sayyid Nur al-Din bin Ni'matallah al-Musawi al-Jazayiri ( ar, نور الدين بن نعمة الله الموسوي الجزائري, translit=Nūr al-Dīn bin Niʻmatallāh al-Jazāʼirī); 1677 – 29 December 1745) was a Safavid Iranian Ja'fa ...
(died 1745), Safavid Iranian Ja'fari jurist, linguist and writer
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Hassan Nooraddeen I (died 1799), sultan of the Maldives
Born after 1800
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Ibrahim Nooraddeen
Ibrahim Nooraddeen (Dhivehi: ސުލްޠާން އިބްރާހީމް ނުރައްދީން; died 1892) was twice the sultan of the Maldives. His first reign was from 1882 through 1886. After 4 years, 11 months and 29 days, Muhammad Mueenuddeen II too ...
(died 1892), sultan of the Maldives
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Abdurrahman Nurettin Pasha (1833–1912), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
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Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (1841–1914), Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
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Nur al-Din al-Salimi Nur al-Dīn al-Sālimī ( ar, نور الدين السالمي; full name Nur al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥumayd ibn Sullūm al-Sālimī, c. 1286-1332 AH/1869-1914 CE) was an Omani historian and scholar noted for his expertise in Ib ...
(1869–1914), Omani Ibadi scholar
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Nureddin Pasha
Nureddin Ibrahim Pasha ( tr, Nurettin Paşa, Nureddin İbrahim Paşa; 1873 – 18 February 1932), known as Nureddin İbrahim Konyar from 1934, was a Turkish military officer who served in the Ottoman Army during World War I and in the Turkis ...
(1873–1932), Turkish military officer
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Hassan Nooraddeen II
Sultan Sir Hassan Nooraddeen Iskandar II, KCMG ( dv, ސުލްޠާން ޙަސަން ނޫރައްދީން ދެވަނަ) was Sultan of the Maldives
Maldives (, ; dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ, translit=Dhivehi Raajje, ), officially the Republ ...
, (1887–1967), sultan of the Maldives
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Nureddine Rifai
Nureddin Rifai (1899 – January 1980) ( ar, نور الدين الرفاعي) was director of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces and the 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon.
Rifai was appointed to be Prime Minister by Suleiman Frangieh
Suleiman ...
(1899–??), Lebanese politician
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Münir Nurettin Selçuk (1900–1981), Turkish musician
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Nur al-Din Kahala (born 1910), Syrian politician
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Noureddin Kianouri
Noureddin Kianouri ( fa, نورالدین کیانوری; 1915–1999) was an Iranian construction engineer, Urban planner Professor of Bauakademie der DDR in Berlin and a communist political leader. He studied first at University of Tehran unti ...
(1915–1999), Iranian communist leader of the Tudeh Party
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Nordine Ben Ali
Nordine Ben Ali (July 19, 1919 – May 15, 1996) was an Algerian-French association football player and manager.
He played as a midfielder and was part of the Girondins ASP side that won the Coupe de France in 1941, as well as reaching the final ...
(born 1919), Algerian-French footballer
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Noureddine Sammoud
Noureddine Sammoud ( ar, نور الدين صمود; 1932 – 11 January 2022) was a Tunisian poet and academic.
Life and career
Born in Kelibia, Sammoud studied at the Al-Zaytuna Mosque and at the Cairo University, before getting a master's ...
(1932–2022), Tunisian poet
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Nureddin al-Atassi (1929–1992), President of Syria
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Nuredin Loxha Nuredin Loxha (1935–1992) was a Kosovar Albanian librettist, set designer, production designer and costume designer. He was born in Peja, Kosovo, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and died in Pristina.
Career
Nuredin Loxha made a name for ...
(1935–1992), Kosovar Albanian theatre director
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Noureddin Zarrinkelk
Noureddin Zarrinkelk (born 9 April 1937, in Mashhad), also spelled Zarrin-Kelk, also known as Noori or Nouri, is an Iranian animator, concept artist, editor, graphic designer, illustrator, layout artist, photographer, script writer, educator, and ...
(born 1937), Iranian film animator
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Nurettin Sözen
Nurettin Sözen (born 1937 in Gürün) is a Turkish doctor, politician and the former mayor of Istanbul, Turkey.
He graduated from Istanbul University and then became a professor in 1978. He was elected as the mayor of Istanbul on March 28, 1989 ...
(born 1937), Turkish politician
*Noureddine
Yazid Zerhouni
Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni ( ar, نورالدين يزيد زرهوني) (1937 – 18 December 2020) was the interior minister of Algeria. He was born in Tunis. In 2000, he was hospitalized in Algeria, Algiers with an undisclosed condition. ...
(born 1937), Algerian politician
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Nooruddeen Durkee (born 1938), American Sufi
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Nurettin Yardımcı (born 1944), Turkish archaeologist
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Mohammad Noordin Sopiee (1944–2005), Malaysian academician
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Nuruddin Farah (born 1945), Somali novelist
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Nourredine Kourichi
Noureddine Abdallah Kourichi (born 12 April 1954) is a former footballer who played as a defender for several different French and Swiss clubs. Born in France, he represented Algeria
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(born 1954), Algerian-French footballer
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Noureddine Bouyahyaoui
Noureddine Bouyahiaoui ( ar, نور الدين البويحياوي; born 7 January 1955) is a Moroccan football defender who played for Morocco in the 1986 FIFA World Cup . He also played for KAC Kenitra KAC or Kac may refer to:
Organi ...
(born 1955), Moroccan footballer
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Nur-eldeen Masalha (born 1957), Palestinian writer
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Noureddine Bhiri (born 1958), Tunisian politician
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Nourdine Bourhane Nourdine Bourhane (born in 1950 in Mamoudzou, Mayotte) is a politician from the Comoros and one of the Vice Presidents of the Comoros from May 2011 to May 2016. (born 1958), Prime Minister of Comoros
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Noureddine Daifallah (born 1960), Moroccan calligrapher
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Nurettin Canikli
Nurettin Canikli (born 15 May 1960) is a Turkish politician, the former Minister of National Defense of Turkey and a Member of Parliament for Giresun under the ruling Justice and Development Party. He previously also served as the Deputy Prime ...
(born 1960), Turkish politician
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Noordeen Mashoor
Noordeen Mashoor (Nurdeen Mashur) was a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament.
Mashoor represented the Vanni multi-member electoral district in the Sri Lankan Parliament between October 2000 and April 2004, firstly for the National U ...
(born 1962), Sri Lankan politician
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Nordin Mohamed Jadi
Nordin Mohd Jadi (born 12 May 1962 in Muar, Johor, Malaysia) is a former Malaysia track runner and athlete who represented Malaysia in many international and regional events and championships in the 1980s. His favourite athletic events were ...
(born 1962), Malaysian athlete
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Nordine Zouareg
Nordine Zouareg (born July 1, 1962) is a French-American fitness personality, high-performance coach and author who has won Mr. France, Mr. Europe, Mr. World, and Mr. Universe in 1986. He currently resides in Tucson, Arizona with his two children.
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(born 1962), Algerian fitness coach
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Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang (born 1963), Chinese Muslim calligrapher
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Noureddine Bensouda (born 1963), Moroccan civil servant
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Noordin Mohammad Top
Noordin Mohammad Top (11 August 1968 – 17 September 2009) was a Malaysian Muslim extremist. He was also referred to as Noordin, Din Moch Top, Muh Top, Top M or Mat Top. Until his death, he was Indonesia's most wanted Islamist militant.
Bo ...
(1968–2009), Malaysian-Indonesian Islamist militant
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Noureddine Morceli
Noureddine Morceli ( ar, نور الدين مرسلي, ''Nūr ud-Dīn Mursilī''; born February 28, 1970) is a retired Algerian middle-distance runner. He was the winner of the 1500 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics and won three straight gold me ...
(born 1970), Algerian athlete
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Noureddine Naybet (born 1970), Moroccan footballer
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Nurettin Demirtaş
Nurettin Demirtaş (born 1972) was a former Kurdish politician of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey and a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Early life and education
He grew up and attended secondary school in Diyarbakır. ...
(born 1972), Turkish politician
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Noureddine Drioueche
Noureddine Drioueche (born October 27, 1973 in Meftah, Blida Province) is an Algerian footballer. He currently plays as a defender for MC Saïda in the Algerian league.
Honours
* Won the CAF Cup three times with JS Kabylie in 2000, 2001 and 20 ...
(born 1973), Algerian footballer
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Nourredine Yagoubi (born 1974), Algerian judoka
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Noureddine Ziyati
Noureddine Ziyati (born 27 October 1974) is a former Moroccan football player.
Honours
;Rapid București
* Supercupa României: 2003
External links
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Noureddine Ziyatiat Soccerterminal.com
1974 births
Living people
Moroccan foo ...
(born 1974), Moroccan footballer
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Nordin Jbari
Nordin Jbari (born 5 February 1975) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Jbari was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium. Just like Sanharib Malki, he started his football career at local team SCUP Jette ...
(born 1975), Moroccan-Belgian footballer
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Noureddine Daham
Noureddine Daham (born 15 November 1977 in Oran) is an Algerian footballer who currently plays for ASO Chlef in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
International career
Daham made his debut for the Algerian national team in 2006 when he was ...
(born 1977), Algerian footballer
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Noureddine Kacemi
Noureddine Kacemi ( ar, نور الدين قاسمي) is a Moroccan former football defender. He last played for FAR Rabat.
Kacemi played for Morocco at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVI ...
(born 1977), Moroccan footballer
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Nordine Amrani Nur al-Din ( ar, translit=nūr ad-dīn, نور الدين) is a male Arabic given name, translating to "light of the religion", ''nūr'' meaning "light" and ''dīn'' meaning "religion". More recently, the name has also been used as a surname.
There ...
(1978–2011), Belgian criminal and spree killer in the
2011 Liège attack
On 13 December 2011, a murder–suicide attack took place in the city of Liège in the Wallonia region of Belgium.
The attacker, 33-year-old Nordine Amrani, threw grenades and fired an FN FAL rifle at civilians on the Place Saint-Lambert, th ...
.
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Nordine Ben Allal (born 1978/89), Moroccan-Belgian criminal
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Nourdin Boukhari
Nourdin Boukhari ( ar, نور الدين البخاري; born 30 June 1980) is a Dutch-Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. After retiring, he worked as a youth coach he is the currently assistant coach of Eredivis ...
(born 1980), Moroccan-Dutch footballer
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Nordine Sam (born 1982), Algerian-French footballer
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Nordin Gerzić (born 1983), Bosnian footballer
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Nordine Oubaali
Nordine Oubaali (Arabic: نوردين أوبالي) (born 4 August 1986) is a Moroccan former professional boxer who competed from 2014 to 2021. He held the WBC bantamweight title from 2019 to 2021. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the lig ...
(born 1986), Moroccan-French boxer
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Nordin Amrabat (born 1987), Moroccan-Dutch footballer
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Nordine Assami
Nordine Assami (born 24 July 1987 in Marseille) is a retired French-Algerian professional football player and current manager of SC Air Bel's U16 team.
Club career
On 29 June 2011 Assami signed a two-year contract with Algerian Ligue Professionn ...
(born 1987), Algerian-French footballer
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Noureddine Smaïl
Noureddine Smaïl (born 6 February 1987) is an Algerian-born French athlete who specialises in middle and long-distance tracks as well as cross country.
Born in Relizane, Algeria, Smaïl moved to France at a young age and began competing for h ...
(born 1987), Algerian-French athlete
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Nurudeen Orelesi (born 1989), Nigerian footballer
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Nuruddin Khan, chief of Bangladesh army
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Nourdine Midiladji
Nourdine Midiladji is a politician in the Comoros. He finished 5th in the election with 9.65% in the first round of voting. He did not qualify for the run-off. He served as Minister of Solidarity under the former president Azali Assoumani
Azali ...
, Comoros politician
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Nour Eddine (singer)
Nour-Eddine Lakhmari ( ar, نور الدين الخماري) is a Moroccan instrumentalist, singer, choreographer and film director.
Biography
Based in Italy, Nour-Eddine has been involved in various groups specializing in ethnic, traditional m ...
, Moroccan film director, musician, choreographer and singer, based in Italy
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Nordine Hachouf
Noureddine Hachouf ( ar, نور الدين حشوف) (born 10 May 1940) is a former Algerian international footballer. He has 20 caps and 9 goals for the Algeria national team and played at the 1968 African Cup of Nations.
He was top scorer of t ...
, Algerian footballer
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Noor al-Deen (detainee), Syrian detained by the CIA
Surname
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Mouna Noureddine (born 1937), Tunisian actress
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Jalal Mansur Nuriddin
Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin (July 24, 1944 – June 4, 2018) was an American poet and musician. He was one of the founding members of The Last Poets, a group of poets and musicians that evolved in the 1960s out of the Harlem Writers Workshop in ...
(1944–2018), American poet
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Mohamed Khaled Nordin
Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin ( Jawi: محمد خالد بن نورالدين; born 30 November 1958) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Higher Education for the second term in Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under Pr ...
(born 1958), Malaysian politician
*Juliette Noureddine (born 1962), French singer known as
Juliette
Juliette is a feminine personal name of French origin. It is a diminutive of Julie.
Notable people
*Juliette (Canadian singer) (1926-2017), full name Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi, Canadian singer and TV personality of the 1950s-1970s. known ...
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Zulkifli Noordin
Datuk Seri Zulkifli Noordin (born 19 February 1962) is a Malaysian politician and a former Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Kulim–Bandar Baharu constituency in Kedah. He held the seat as an Independent, although having been elec ...
(born 1962), Malaysian politician
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Zainudin Nordin (born 1963), Singaporean politician
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Mohd Nasril Nourdin (born 1986), Malaysian footballer
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Herdi Noor Al-Deen (born 1992), Iraqi Kurdish footballer
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Muayyed Nureddin An Iraqi-born Canadian geologist, CBCCanadian geologist who was tortured in Syria February 25, 2004 Muayyed Nureddin (مؤيد نورالدين), was imprisoned and tortured in similar circumstances to Maher Arar in Syria.http://www.cbc.ca/thecurren ...
, Canadian Muslim detainee
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Dara Nur al-Din
Dara Nur al-Din is an Iraqi judge and politician who served as the Minister of Justice from February 2008 to December 2010. , Iraqi judge and politician
Fictional
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Nour El Deen Mahmoud Nour El Deen
See also
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Nur al-Din Bimaristan
Nur al-Din Bimaristan ( ar, البيمارستان النوري) is a large Muslim medieval ''bimaristan'' ("hospital") in Damascus, Syria. It is located in the al-Hariqa quarter in the old walled city, to the southwest of the Umayyad Mosque. It wa ...
, medieval hospital in Damascus
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Nur al-Din Madrasa, madrasa in Damascus
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Nur al-Din Mosque, mosque in Hama
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Nürəddin, village in Azerbaijan
References
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