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Shams (Arabic: شمس; pronounced [ʃams]) is an Arabic word meaning "Sun". It may also refer to:
Media[edit]
- Shams (newspaper), a defunct Saudi newspaper
- Al-Shams (newspaper), Libyan government newspaper until 2011
- Network for Public Policy Studies, an Iranian website
People[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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