Nur al-Din

Nur al-Din (Arabic: نور الدين‎, romanized: nūr ad-dīn) 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 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 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, Noordeen, Nourdin, Noordine, Nordine, Nuradin, Nurdin; scientific transliterations are Nur ad-Din, Nur-ud-Din, Nur al-Din, etc.

Given name
Further information: Arabic name

Medieval and up to 1800
  • Nur ad-Din, atabeg of Aleppo (1118–1174), member of the Zengid dynasty, ruler of the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire
  • Nur al-Din Muhammad (died 1185), member of the Artuqid dynasty
  • Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji (also known as Alpetragius) (died ca. 1204), Arab astronomer and philosopher
  • Nur al-Din Arslan Shah I (reigned 1193–1211), Zengid emir of Mosul
  • Nure Sofi (died ca. 1257), Turkish religious leader
  • Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd al-'Azīz Ibn al-Qamar (1326–1398), Tunisian Berber prince
  • Sheikh Noor-ud-din Wali (1377–1440), Kashmiri saint of the rishi order
  • 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 (died 1605), Afghan Islamic scholar
  • Nuruddin ar-Raniri (died 1658), Indian Islamic scholar
  • Noor Mohammad Nooruddin (died 1719), Dai-al-Mutlaq (vicegerent) of the Dawoodi Bohra Community
  • Hassan Nooraddeen I (died 1799), sultan of the Maldives

Born after 1800

Surname

Fictional
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