Shams

Shams (Arabic: شمس; pronounced [ʃams]) is an Arabic word meaning "Sun". It may also refer to:

Media

• Shams (newspaper), a defunct Saudi newspaper
• Al-Shams (newspaper), Libyan government newspaper until 2011
• Network for Public Policy Studies, an Iranian website

People

• Shams (singer), a Saudi-Kuwaiti singer
• Shams al-Din, a masculine given name
• Shams Badran, Egyptian military officer
• Shams al-Baroudi, Egyptian actress
• Shams Charania, NBA reporter for The Athletic
• Shams Langeroodi, contemporary Iranian poet
• Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, an alternate name for Iltutmish, the third Muslim Turkic sultan of the Sultanate of Delhi
• Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of Shah of Iran, the last king of the Iranian monarchy
• Shams Tabrizi, an Iranian Sufi mystic
• Ibrahim Shams, Egyptian Olympic weightlifter
• Shams, a medical doctor who voluntarily traveled to Daesh territory (see Brides of Daesh)

Places

• Ain Shams, neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt
• Jebel Shams, a mountain in Oman
• Majdal Shams, a village in the Golan Heights
• Shams-e Bijar, a village in Gilan Province, Iran
• Shams Abu Dhabi, a real estate development on Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Shams Solar Power Station, a planned concentrating solar power station in the United Arab Emirates

Other uses

• Ain Shams University, a university located in Cairo, Egypt
• Ash-Shams, the 91st surah of the Quran
• Shams (deity), a solar deity in the ancient South Arabian religion
• Shams, a kind of decorative pillow
• The Shams, an all-female folk pop trio from New York
• Association Shams, a Tunisian organization for LGBT rights

See also

• Sham (disambiguation)
• Al-Shams (disambiguation)
• Shamss Ensemble, music group performing Iranian and Sufi music
• Shamash, the solar deity in ancient Semitic religion
• Shamish, the Sun in Mandaeism