Ajami (disambiguation)
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Ajami is the Arabic adjective applied to an Ajam, a Persian or (relative to Arabic speakers) alien.
Ajami or Ajam may also refer to:
Ajami or Ajam may also refer to:
- Ajam (maqam)Ajam (maqam)‘Ajam is the name of a maqam in Arabic, Turkish, and related systems of music. Ajam in this usage means "Persian."...
, a musical mode - Ajami (film)Ajami (film)Ajami is a 2009 Arab/Jewish collaboration drama film. Its plot is set in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa.-Overview:Written and directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani , Ajami explores five different stories set in an actual impoverished Christian-and-Muslim Arab neighborhood of the Tel...
, a 2009 film - Ajam (Bahrain)Ajam (Bahrain)The Iranians in Bahrain or Ajam are a community of Persians in Bahrain. They have traditionally been merchants living in a specific quarters of Manama and Muharraq. They mostly adhere to the Shia sect of Islam, while a very small minority follow the Bahai faith...
, a community of Persians in Bahrain - Ajami, JaffaAjami, JaffaAjami is a neighborhood in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, situated south of Old Jaffa and north of the Jabaliyya neighborhood on the Mediterranean Sea.- History :...
, a neighborhood in Israel - Ajami dialect, a dialect of Persian
- Ajami scriptAjami scriptThe term Ajami , or Ajamiyya , which comes from the Arabic root for "foreign" or "stranger," has been applied to Arabic alphabets used for writing African languages....
, one of the Arabic-based orthographies used for writing African languages.
People with the name
- Fouad AjamiFouad AjamiFouad A. Ajami , is a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution....
(born 1945), Lebanese-born American journalist & academic