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

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

Others

• Dunya School, a school in Baku, Azerbaijan
• Bassarona dunya, butterfly of the Nymphalidae family found in south-east Asia

See also

• Dunia (disambiguation)