Dunya (disambiguation)
Dunya is the Arabic word for the world. Ad-Dunya (ٱلدُّنْيَا) is an Arabic word literally meaning 'the nearer' or 'the lower' referring to "this world" in Islamic thought. Variants including Dunia, Donya, etc.
It may also refer to:
Persons
- Ibn Abi al-Dunya, or Abdullah ibn Muhammad (died 894), Muslim scholar
- Dunya Maumoon, Maldives politician and government minister
- Dunya Mikhail (born 1965), Iraqi poet based in the United States
- Dunya, a character in Pushkin's story "The Station Master"
Arts
- Dunya (album), Nazeel Azami album
- Donya (album), Arash album
Media
- Dünya (newspaper, 1981), Turkish newspaper
- Dunya News, Urdu language news and current affairs television channel from Pakistan
- Daily Dunya, or Roznama Dunya, Urdu language newspaper in Pakistan
- Dunya Telecom, telecommunications company headquartered in the United States
Other uses
- Dunya School, a school in Baku, Azerbaijan
- Bassarona dunya, butterfly of the Nymphalidae family found in south-east Asia
See also
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