Nasr (surname)

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Nasr is a very common Arabic surname, which is usually translated as "Victory", and may refer to:

  • Abu Zayd Nasr, Egyptian Qur'anic thinker and one of the leading liberal theologists in Islam
  • Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, Egyptian cleric who was living in asylum in Italy until being allegedly abducted by the CIA
  • Said Al Nasr, Syrian Palestinian, convicted in Belgium in 1980, for throwing two hand grenades into a group of Jewish children waiting for a bus in Antwerp
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor in the department of Islamic studies at George Washington University
  • Vali Nasr, American academic and scholar teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School
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