The name Ziauddin is a common transliteration of the male Muslim given name more correctly written Ḍiya ad-Dīn (). It means the “Shine of the Religion” It may refer to:
People
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Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi
Abū al-Najīb Abd al-Qahhar Suhrawardī () (1097–1168) was a Sunni PersianQamar al-Huda, ''Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi'', ed. Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z, Vol. 2. . pp 775-776: "Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs 'Um ...
, (1097 – 1168), Persian Sufi
* Diyā' ad-Dīn Ibn Athir (1163 - 1239), Arab writer and literary critic
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Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi
Diya may refer to:
* '' Diya (film)'', 2018 Indian Tamil- and Telugu-language film
* Diya (Islam), Islamic term for monetary compensation for bodily harm or property damage
* Diya (lamp), ghee- or oil-based candle often used in South Asian religi ...
Nakhshabi
Ziya' al-Din Nakhshabi was a 14th-century Persian physician and Sufi living in India. He died in 1350.
According to a statement in a manuscript now at The National Library of Medicine, Nakhshabi himself transcribed and illustrated a Persian tran ...
(died 1350), Persian physician and Sufi living in India
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Ziauddin Barani
Ziauddin Barani (; 1285–1357) was an Indian political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate located in present-day Northern India during Muhammad bin Tughlaq and Firuz Shah's reign. He was best known for composing the ''Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi'' ...
(1285 - 1357), Indian historian and political philosopher
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Ziauddin Ahmad
Sir Ziauddin Ahmad (born Ziauddin Ahmed Zuberi; 13 February 1873 – 23 December 1947) was an Indian mathematician, parliamentarian, logician, natural philosopher, politician, political theorist, educationist and a scholar.< ...
(1878 – 1947), scholar and politician in colonial India
* Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee (1888 – 1969), Prime Minister of Iran
*Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri, known as Z. A. Suleri (1913 - 1999), Pakistani journalist and writer
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Ziaeddin Shademan
Ziaeddin Shademan (; November 27, 1923 – March 12, 2009) was an Iranian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
See also
*List of mayors of Tehran
The Mayor of Tehran is an elected polit ...
(born 1923), Iranian Basketball Player
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Diaa al-Din Dawoud
Diaa al-Din Dawoud (name also spelled ''Diya el-Din Dawud'' or ''Diaaeddin Dawoud''; 26 March 1926 – 6 April 2011)
Zia Uddin
Mufakkir al-Islām Ḍiyā' ad-Dīn ibn Muqaddas ʿAlī (; born 4 April 1941), better known simply as Zia Uddin () or reverentially as Nazim Saheb Huzur (), is a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician and educationist. He is currently ...
(born 1941), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar
* Ziauddin Ahmed (Bangladesh) (1950-2017), Bangladeshi military officer
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Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar (; born 31 October 1951) is a British-Pakistani scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futurology Critique of modernity, postmodernism an ...
(born 1951), Pakistani writer on Islam
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Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu
Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu (31 December 1954 – 2 October 2021) was a Bangladeshi politician of the Jatiya Party (Ershad), Jatiya Party and served as the Secretary General for two terms. He was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Chittagong-9 con ...
(1954–2021), Bangladeshi politician
*Ziyaettin Doğan or
Ziya Doğan
Ziyaettin Dogan (born 1 January 1961 in Gümüşhane, Turkey) is a UEFA Pro Licensed Turkish football manager.
Career
Ziya Doğan has played at Beşiktaş (1979–1987), Ankaragücü (1987–1990), Kocaelispor (1990–1992) and Zeytinburnusp ...
(born 1961), Turkish football manager
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Ziaeddin Niknafs
Ziaeddin Niknafs (; born 19 September 1986) is an Iranian football defender who currently plays for Sanat Naft in Iran Pro League. He is a young left-footed defender who can play as both a left back and central defender.
Club career
He was ...
(born 1986), Iranian footballer
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Ziauddin Rizvi Shaheed Agha Ziauddin Rizvi () was a Pakistani Shi'a cleric born at Amphary, Gilgit, in a religious family. He completed his early schooling in Gilgit; he later moved to Lahore, and afterwards Iran, for higher religious education. He also visited t ...
(died 2005), Shi'a cleric from Gilgit
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Qari Ziauddin Qari Ziauddin (died October 5, 2010) was a local militia leader in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province, the province in the extreme Northeast.
According to Pakistan's ''Daily Times'' Qari Ziauddin and five of his men were captured on February 12, 20 ...
(died 2010), Afghan militia leader
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Ziauddin Butt
General Khawaja Ziauddin Abbasi (), also known as Ziauddin Butt (), is a retired four-star rank army generalChaudhry, Aminullah (2009) Hijacking from the Ground: The Bizarre Story of Pk 805. Authorhouse. Pg 167 in the Pakistan Army, who served ...
, a Pakistani military officer jailed as a result of the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état
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Ziauddin (Afghan militia leader)
Ziauddin is a citizen of Afghanistan, who helped lead the ouster of the Taliban.
Ziauddin is a Tajik ethnic groupmember and was rewarded with command of some of the Afghan Transitional Authority's security forces in Paktia Province in 2002. He ...
, Afghan militia leader
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Zia Yusuf
Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf (; born 1986) is a multi-millionaire British businessman and political campaigner who has served as the head of Reform UK Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) since June 2025. He previously served as Chairman of Ref ...
(born 1986/1987), British businessman and politician
Others
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Ziauddin Pur
Ziauddin Pur is a village and census town in Mustafabad in North East district in the Indian state of Delhi.
Demographics
India census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, ...
, census town in India
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Qarah Zia od Din
Qarah Zia ol Din () is a city in the Central District of Chaypareh County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Demographics Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's ...
, town in West Azarbaijan province, Iran
* Dr. Ziauddin Group of Hospitals, hospital group in Pakistan named in honor of Ziauddin Ahmed
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