Sharaf al-Din


Sharaf al-Din and Sharif al-Din are two related male Muslim given names. The Turkish form of the name is Şerafettin.

People with the name

  • Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin, a medieval Ottoman surgeon and physician
  • Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush, Ayyubid commander and adventurer
  • Sharaf al-Din Ismail, better known as Emirci Sultan, Babai mystic
  • Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri, Indian Islamic scholar and Sufi saint
  • Shaikh Sharafuddeen Bu Ali Qalandar Panipati, known as Bu Ali Shah Qalandar, thirteenth century Azerbaijani-Indian Sufi saint
  • Sheikh Sharaf ad-Din ibn al-Hasan, head of the ‘Adawiyya Ṣūfī Order
  • Sharfuddin Abu Tawwama, Islamic scholar based in Bengal
  • Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat, early Iraqi Sufi, active in India
  • Sharaf al-Din Sati, Mevlevi mystic, artisan, and author
  • Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi, Shi'a twelver Islamic scholar
  • Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, Pakistani lawyer and politician
  • Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, Bangladeshi educationalist and popular science writer
  • Al-Hadi Sharaf ad-Din, claimant for the Zaidi imamate of Yemen
  • Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, 15th-century Persian historian
  • Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Persian mathematician and astronomer of the Islamic Golden Age
  • Sharafuddin of Selangor, sultan of Selangor, Malaysia since November 2001
  • Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu, first Mayor of Rangpur, Bangladesh
  • Sharfuddin Ahmad, Indian politician
  • Sharaf U Dheen, or Sharafudheen, Indian actor in Malayalam-language films
  • Sharfuddin, Indian politician from Bihar
  • Sharaf Uddin Khashru, Bangladeshi politician

    Turkish variant Şerafettin

  • Kötü Kedi Şerafettin, Turkish comic series about the anthropomorphical cat of same name. Later adapted on film as Bad Cat.
  • Şerafettin Elçi, Turkish politician of Kurdish origin
  • Şerafettin Işık, pen-name of Hamit Zübeyir Koşay, Turkish archaeologist, ethnographer, writer and folklore researcher
  • Şerafettin Taşliova, or Şeref Taşlıova, Turkish poet and storyteller
  • Şero, mascot cat of Turkey's Republican People's Party headquarters
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