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Zahir (Arabic: ظاهر‎ Ẓāhir) may refer to:

Philosophy

• Aẓ-Ẓāhir, one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "Evident" or "Outer".
• Zahir (Islam), in Islam, the exterior, surface, or apparent meaning of things
• Ẓāhiri, a school of thought in Islamic Jurisprudence

Artistic works

• " The Zahir" (in the original Spanish, "El Zahir"), a 1949 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges
• The Zahir (novel) (in the original Portuguese, O Zahir), a 2005 novel from the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho

People

• Zahir (surname)
• Al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah (1005–1036), seventh caliph of the Fātimids
• Az-Zahir of Aleppo, son of Saladin, leader of Ayyubid dynasty
• Az-Zahir (Abbasid caliph) (1176–1226), Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1225 to 1226
• al-Ẓāhir Baybars (ruled 1260–77), Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria
• az-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Barquq (died 1399), first sultan of the Mamluk Burji dynasty
• Zahir-ud-Din Babur (1483–1531), established the Mughal dynasty in India in 1526
• Zahir al-Umar, virtual Arab ruler of northern Palestine in the 18th century
• Zahir Pajaziti (1962-1997), The first Commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army
• Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914–2007), last king of Afghanistan
• Zaheer Abbas (born 1947), Pakistani cricketer
• Zaheer Khan (born 1978), Indian cricketer

Places

• Zahir Mosque, Kedah's state mosque in Alor Setar

Company

• Zahir (company), an accounting software company established in Jakarta, Indonesia since 1996

See also

• Zaheer (name), Urdu spelling
• Abdul Zahir (disambiguation)
• Zahir al-Din (disambiguation)
• Dahir (disambiguation)

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