Nur al-Din
Nur al-Din () is a male Arabic given name, translating to "light of Faith", 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, 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 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 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 (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 Nur al-Din Nimatullah al-Jazayiri (died 1745), Safavid Iranian Ja'fari jurist, linguist and writer Hassan Nooraddeen I (died 1799), sultan of the Maldives Born after 1800 Ibrahim Nooraddeen (died 1892), sultan of the Maldives Abdurrahman Nurettin Pasha (1833–1912), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (1841–1914), Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Nur al-Din al-Salimi (1869–1914), Omani Ibadi scholar Nureddin Pasha (1873–1932), Turkish military officer Hassan Nooraddeen II, (1887–1967), sultan of the Maldives Nureddine Rifai (1899–1980), Lebanese politician Münir Nurettin Selçuk (1900–1981), Turkish musician Nur al-Din Kahala (1908–1965), Syrian politician Noureddin Kianouri (1915–1999), Iranian communist leader of the Tudeh Party Nordine Ben Ali (1919–1996), Algerian-French footballer Nurettin Ok (1927–2013), Turkish lawyer and politician Nureddin al-Atassi (1929–1992), President of Syria Noureddine Sammoud (1932–2022), Tunisian poet Nuredin Loxha (1935–1992), Kosovar Albanian theatre director Noureddin Zarrinkelk (born 1937), Iranian film animator Nurettin Sözen (born 1937), Turkish politician Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni (born 1937), Algerian politician Nooruddeen Durkee (1938–2020), American Sufi Nurettin Yardımcı (born 1944), Turkish archaeologist Mohammad Noordin Sopiee (1944–2005), Malaysian academician Nuruddin Farah (born 1945), Somali novelist Nourredine Kourichi (born 1954), Algerian-French footballer Noureddine Bouyahyaoui (born 1955), Moroccan footballer Nur-eldeen Masalha (born 1957), Palestinian writer Noureddine Bhiri (born 1958), Tunisian politician Nourdine Bourhane (born 1958), Prime Minister of Comoros Noureddine Daifallah