Ansari
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Ansari may refer to:
- Ansar (Islam), an Islamic term that literally means "helpers" and denotes the Medinan citizens that helped the Islamic prophet Muhammad after the Hijra
- Banu Aws, one of the main Arab tribes of Medina which, along with the Khazraj, constituted the Ansar ("helpers")
- Tala' al Badru 'Alayna, a traditional Islamic song that the Ansar sang to Muhammad upon his arrival at Yathrib after completing the Hijra
- Ansari, an alternate term for Alawites or Alawis
- Ansar Imam Mahdi, a 21st-century Shia movement, who believe in Ahmad al-Hassan is the messenger of the 12th imam
- Ansari (nesba), list of people with this surname
- Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah, Persian Sufi poet.
- The Ansari mountains in Syria
- Ansari X Prize, a space competition that was won on October 4, 2004 - named after Amir Ansari and Anousheh Ansari of the Ansari family,
- Ansariye, Lebanon, a town in South Lebanon
- Banu Khazraj or Banu al-Khazraj, a Muslim ethnic group found in South Asia
- Momin Ansari, a Muslim community, found mainly in West and North India and the province of Sindh in Pakistan
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