Shams al-Din
Shams al-Din (Arabic: شمس الدين, lit. "Sun of the Faith") is an Arabic personal name or title.
Notable persons with this name are:
- Muhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din al-Muqaddasi (ca. 945 - 1000), Arab geographer
- Shams al-Din Muhammad bin Ali, or Suzani Samarqandi (died 1166), Persian poet
- Shams al-Din Ildeniz (died c. 1175), atabeg of Azerbaijan
- Shams al-din Muhammad ibn al-Muqaddam (fl. 12th century), Zengid governor of Damascus and Ayyubid emir of Baalbek
- Shams-ud-din Iltutmish (died 1236), Muslim Turkic sultan of Delhi
- Shamsuddin Sabzwari (died 1247), Sufi missionary in southern Punjab
- Shams al-Din Mohammad, or Shams Tabrizi (died 1248), Persian Sufi mystic
- Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Mas'ud (died 1255), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
- Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar (1211 - 1279), provincial governor of Yunnan
- Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān (1211 – 1282), Iraqi Shafi'i Islamic scholar
- Shams ad-Din Juvayni (died 1285) vizier and sahib-divan under three Mongol Ilkhans
- Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shahrazuri (died ca. 1290), Kurdish physician and historian
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (ca. 1250 – ca. 1310), astronomer and mathematician from Samarkand
- Shamsuddin Firoz Shah (died 1322), sultan of the Bengali kingdom of Lakhnauti
- Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi (1256 - 1327), Arab geographer
- Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir (died 1342), ruler of Kashmir
- Shams al-Din ibn Fazl Allah (died ca. 1348), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
- Khwaja Shams al-Din 'Ali (died ca. 1352), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
- Shams ud din, or Shams Tabraiz (missionary) (died 1356), Ismaili saint in India
- Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah (died 1358), sultan of Bengal
- Shams al-Din Ibn Muflih (died 1361), authority on Hanbali Law
- Shams ud-Din Amir Kulal (died 1370), tribal head, scholar and religious figure in Turkistan
- Shams al-Dīn Abū Abd Allāh al-Khalīlī (1320 - 1380), Syrian astronomer
- Shams-ud-Din Kermani (died ca. 1385), Sunni scholar
- Khwaja Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz-e Shirazi (1315 - 1390), Persian lyric poet
- Molla Şemseddin Fenari (1350 — 1431), Turkish logician, Islamic theologian, and Islamic legal academic
- Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah (died 1435), ruler of Bengal
- Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Qutb al-Din (ca. 1387 - ca. 1438), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
- Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah (died 1481), ruler of Bengal
- Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad (died 1487), sultan of Adal
- Shamsuddin Muzaffar Shah (died 1494), Abyssinian sultan of Bengal
- Shams al-Din Muhammad (died ca. 1494), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
- Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman al-Sakhawi (1428 - 1497), Egyptian Islamic scholar
- Mir Shamsuddin (died 1526), Sufi Shi'a missionary in Kashmir
- Shamsuddin Muhammad Ataga Khan (died 1562), minister in Mughal court
- Khawaja Shamsuddin Khawafi (died 1600), minister to Emperor Akbar
- Qazi Mohamed Shamsuddin (died 1645), Chief Justice of the Maldives
- Muhammad Shamsuddeen II (died ca. 1774), Sultan of the Maldives
- Şemseddin Sami Efendi, pen-name of Sami Frashëri (1850 – 1904), Albanian writer, philosopher and playwright
- Muhammad Shamsuddeen III (1879 - 1935), Sultan of the Maldives
- Şemsettin Günaltay (1883 – 1961) prime minister of Turkey
- Abul Kalam Shamsuddin (1897 - 1978), Bengali journalist and politician
- Abujafar Shamsuddin (1911 - 1989), Bangladeshi author and novelist
- Khwaja Shams-ud-Din (1922 – 1999), Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
- Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926 - 1997), Bangladeshi author and novelist
- Nasri Shamseddine (1927 - 1983), Lebanese singer and actor
- A. T. M. Shamsuddin (born 1927), Bangladeshi author
- Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi (born 1927), patriarch of the Sufi Order of Azeemia
- Mohammad Mehdi Shamseddine (1936 - 2001), Lebanese Twelver Shia Islamic scholar
- Shamsodin Vaezi (born 1936), Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja
- Shamsuddeen Usman (born 1949), Nigerian politician
- Semezdin Mehmedinović (born 1960), Bosnian writer
- Shamsuddin Amiri (born 1985), Afghan footballer
- Mohd Ashaari Shamsuddin (born 1985), Malaysian footballer
- Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin, Malaysian politician
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