Abbas
People
- Abbas (name), list of people with the name, including:
- Abbas ibn Ali (645–680), popularly known as Hazrat-e-Abbas, the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and the first imam in Shia Islam
- Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (567–653), uncle of Prophet Muhammad
- Abbas ibn Firnas (810–887), an Andalusian polymath, mathematician, physician, astronomer, inventor, poet, and reported to have experimented with a form of flight
- Abbas the Great (1571–1629), Fifth Safavid Shah of Iran (r. 1587–1629)
- Abbas II of Persia (1632–1666), Seventh Safavid Shah of Iran (r. 1642–1666)
- Abbas I of Egypt (1812–1854), founder of the reigning dynasty of Egypt and Sudan at the time (r. 1849–1854)
- Abbas II of Egypt (1874–1944), last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (r. 1892–1914)
- Abbas (actor) (born 1975), Indian actor
Places
Azerbaijan
Iraq
- Al Abbas Mosque, shrine of Abbas ibn Ali in Karbala
Khuzestan Province
Lorestan Province
United Kingdom
In English place-names the affix "Abbas" denotes former ownership by an abbey.
- Abbas Combe, Somerset
- Abbas Hall, Suffolk
- Bradford Abbas, Dorset
- Cerne Abbas, Dorset
- Compton Abbas, Dorset
- Itchen Abbas, Hampshire
- Melbury Abbas, Dorset
- Milton Abbas, Dorset
- Winterbourne Abbas, Dorset
See also
- Abbasi (disambiguation)
- Abba (disambiguation)
- Ab (Semitic), "father" in Semitic languages
- Darreh-ye Abbas (disambiguation) (meaning "Abbas Valley")
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