Uways

Uways or Uwais (Arabic: أويس) may refer to:

People

  • Owais al-Qarani (594–657 CE), a Yemenite from the time of Muhammad, classified by Muslims as a Ṭābi‘
  • Shaykh Uways Jalayir, Jalayirid ruler (1356–1374)
  • Uvais II, Jalayirid ruler (1415–1421)
  • Uwais Khan, Moghul Khan of Mughalistan 1418–1421 CE and 1425–1429 CE
  • Esen Buqa II (died 1462), Khan of Moghulistan
  • Üveys Pasha (1512–1547)
  • Uways al-Barawi (1847–1909), a Somali scholar
  • Mohammed Uwais (born 1936), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria

Religious movements

  • Uwaisi, a Sufi religious movement named for Uwais al-Qarni
  • Naqshbandi, an Uwaisi order
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