Musa (name)
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Given name
- Musa AydınMusa AydinMusa Aydın is a Turkish footballer who plays for Antalyaspor in the Turkish Super Lig.At the start of the 2009-10 season, he scored a Champions League goal for Sivasspor against Anderlecht in the second leg of the third round qualifying, in a game that Sivas won 3-1.-References:...
, Turkish footballer - Musa CälilMusa CälilMusa Cälil was a Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union who was simultaneously awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award for his resistance fighting, and the Lenin Prize for authoring The Moabit Notebooks; both the awards were awarded to him...
, Tatar poet and anti-Nazi resistance fighter - Musa Ćazim ĆatićMusa Cazim CaticMusa Ćazim Ćatić was a Bosnian Muslim poet of Croat orientation. He is currently featured on the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 50 km note ....
, was a Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) poet - Musa CooperMusa CooperMusa A. Cooper is an American dancer and fitness model who has had several television appearances, and is best known for being featured on both of the initial two seasons of the popular televised dance competition So You Think You Can Dance.-Life:Cooper was raised in Camden, New Jersey...
, "So You Think You Can Dance" finalist - Musa al-KadhimMusa al-Kadhim' was the seventh of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'a Islam. He was the son of Imam and his mother was Hamidah Khātūn, a student and former Zanjiyyah slave...
, seventh Imām of Twelver Shī‘ah Muslims - Musa NizamMusa NizamMusa Nizam is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a left wingback for Antalyaspor.-External links:*...
, Turkish footballer - Musa bin NusairMusa bin NusairMusa bin Nusayr al-Balawi was a balawi who served as a governor and general under the Umayad caliph Al-Walid I. He had ruled over the Muslim provinces of North Africa , and directed the islamic opening of the Visigothic kingdom in Hispania....
(640-716), Yemeni Muslim governor and general under the Umayyads, Viceroy of North Africa since 698, invaded Spain in 711 - Musa of ParthiaMusa of ParthiaMusa was Queen of Parthia c. 2 BC – AD 4. She is called as Thermusa by Josephus and is also known as Thea Urania . She was a concubine given by the Roman Emperor Augustus to King Phraates IV of Parthia...
, queen of Parthia c. 2 BC – AD 4 - Musa bin ShakirMusa bin ShakirMusa bin Shakir was a Persian engineer and astronomer during the reign of Al-Ma'mun. His three children, the Banu Musa , were renowned scholars.He had been a highwayman during his youth.- External links :*...
, Persian engineer and astronomer - Musa ibn Musa ibn QasiMusa ibn Musa ibn QasiMusa ibn Musa al-Qasawi was leader of the muwallad Banu Qasi clan and ruler of a semi-autonomous principality in the upper Ebro valley in northern Iberia in the 9th century.-Rise:...
, leader of the muwallad Banu Qasi clan
Surname
- Banū MūsāBanu MusaThe Banū Mūsā brothers , namely Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir , Abū al‐Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir and Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir , were three 9th-century Persian scholars of Baghdad who are known for their Book of Ingenious Devices on automata and mechanical devices...
, Persian scholars - Igor MusaIgor MusaIgor Musa is a former central midfielder. He went to Hajduk from Slaven Belupo in the summer of 2006 and then to AEL Limassol in July 2007. He was in Hajduk previously in 2001/2002. At end of the season his contract expired and he left...
, Croatian/Bosnian footballer - Mansa MusaMansa MusaMusa I , commonly referred to as Mansa Musa, was the tenth mansa, which translates as "king of kings" or "emperor", of the Malian Empire...
, leader of the Mali Empire between 1312–37 - Mírzá MúsáMírzá MúsáMírzá Músá , surnamed Áqáy-i-Kalím was the only true brother of Bahá'u'lláh, meaning that they shared the same mother. He was later named by Shoghi Effendi as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh....
(d. 1887), surnamed Áqáy-i-Kalím was the brother of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith - Quintus Pomponius MusaQuintus Pomponius MusaQuintus Pomponius Musa was a magistrate, moneyer and banker during the Republican Period in Rome, around 66 BC. He was a member of the Pomponius gens....
, a first century Roman banker and moneyer (creator of coinage)
See also
- Arabic nameArabic nameLong ago, Arabic names were based on a long naming system; most Arabs did not simply have given/middle/family names, but a full chain of names. This system was in use throughout the Arab world. Today however, Arabic names are similar in structure to those of Modern and Western names...
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