Yazīd ( ar, يزيد, links=no, "increasing", "adding more") is an Arabic name and may refer to:
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Yazid I (647–683), second Umayyad Caliph upon succeeding his father Muawiyah
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Yazid II (687–724), Umayyad caliph
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Yazid III (701–744), Umayyad caliph
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Yazid Kaïssi
Yazid Kaïssi ( ar, يزيد قيسي; born 16 May 1981) is a French-Moroccan former professional footballer. He last played for Feignies Aulnoye.
Club career
A youth prospect of Lens, Kaïssi played for the reserve team and was a finalist in ...
(born 1981), French-born Moroccan footballer
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Yazid Mansouri (born 1978), French-born Algerian footballer
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Yazid ibn al-Muhallab (672–720), Umayyad governor
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Yazid of Morocco (1750–1792), Sultan of Morocco
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Yazid Sabeg (born 1950), French businessman
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Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan (died 640), brother of the early Umayyad leader Muawiyah I, and companion of Muhammad
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Yazid Sufaat
Yazid Sufaat (born 20 January 1964), also known as Yazud bin Sufaat or Yazid Shufaat, is a Malaysian member of the extremist Islamist terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiyah from shortly after its foundation in 1993 until his arrest by Malaysian ...
(born 1964), suspected militant
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Yazid Zerhouni (born 1937), Algerian politician
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Zinedine Zidane (Zinedine Yazid Zidane, born 1972), French footballer and manager
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Yazid ibn Umar al-Fazari
Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari ( ar, يَزِيد بن عُمَر بن هُبَيْرَة الْفَزارِيّ , Yazīd ibn ʿUmar ibn Hubayra al-Fazārī; died 750) was the last Umayyad governor of Iraq. A son of former governor Umar ibn ...
(died 750)
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Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi (died 787)
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Yazid ibn Abdallah al-Hulwani Yazid ibn Abdallah ibn Dinar al-Hulwani (also called al-Turki)Gordon, p. 109 ( ar, يزيد بن عبد الله التركي) was the military governor (''wālī al-jaysh'') of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate from 856 to 867.Kennedy, p. 85 He was t ...
(), Abbasid military governor of Egypt
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Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani (died ), Abbasid military general and governor
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Yazid ibn Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami (), Abbasid military general in Armenia
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Yazid ibn al-Sa'iq
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Yazid ibn Jarir al-Qasri
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Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki
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Yazid ibn Ziyad
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Yazid ibn Khalid al-Qasri
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Yazid ibn Abi Muslim
Surname
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Abu Yazid (873–947), Kharijite Berber of the Banu Ifran tribe
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Mhamed Yazid (1923–2003), Algerian independence activist and politician
See also
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Yazidis, an ethnoreligious group
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Yezidi (script)
The Kurdish languages are written in either of two alphabets: a Latin alphabet introduced by Celadet Alî Bedirxan in 1932 called the Bedirxan alphabet or Hawar alphabet (after the '' Hawar'' magazine) and a Perso-Arabic script called the Sorani ...
, a historic Kurdish alphabet
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Yezidi (Unicode block)
Yezidi is a Unicode block containing characters from the Yezidi script, which was used for writing Kurdish, specifically the Kurmanji dialect (Northern Kurdish) for liturgical purposes in Iraq and Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
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, a Unicode block containing letters of the Yezidi script
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