# Shams al-Din

Shams al-Din (IPA: /ʃamsaddiːn/) (Arabic: شمس الدين, lit. "sun of the faith") is an Arabic personal name or title.
Notable persons with this name are:

## 10th–13th century

* Shams al-Din Altınapa, Seljuk atabeg
* Muhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din al-Maqdisi (c. 945–1000), Arab geographer
* Shams al-Din Ibn Fallus (1194-1240), Arab Egyptian mathematician
* Shams al-Din Muhammad bin Ali, or Suzani Samarqandi (died 1166), Persian poet
* Shams al-Din Ildeniz (died c. 1175), atabeg of Azerbaijan
* Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Muqaddam (died 1188), Zengid governor of Damascus and Ayyubid emir of Baalbek
* Shams-ud-din Iltutmish (1192-1236), Muslim Turkic sultan of Delhi
* Shamsuddin Sabzwari (died 1247), Sufi missionary in southern Punjab
* Shams al-Din Muhammad, or Shams Tabrizi (1185-1248), Persian Sufi mystic
* Shams al-Din Lu'lu' al-Amini (died 1251), regent of Aleppo
* Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Mas'ud (died 1255), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
* Ajall Shams al-Din Omar (1211–1279), provincial governor of Yunnan
* Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān (1211–1282), Iraqi Shafi'i Islamic scholar
* Shams al-Din Juvayni (died 1285) vizier and sahib-divan under three Mongol Ilkhans
* Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shahrazuri (died c. 1290), Kurdish physician and historian

## 14th–17th century

* Shams al-Din Muhammad (1257–1310), imam of the Nizari Isma'ili community
* Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi (c. 1250 – c. 1310), astronomer and mathematician from Samarkand
* Shamsuddin Firuz Shah (died 1322), sultan of the Bengali kingdom of Lakhnauti
* Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi (1256–1327), Arab geographer
* Shams al-Din Abu’Abdallah Muhammad ibn’Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf Lawati al-Tanji Ibn Battuta (1304-1368), explorer
* Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir (1300-1342), ruler of Kashmir
* Ali Shams al-Din I (died 1348), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
* Shams al-Din ibn Fazl Allah (died c. 1348), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
* Khwaja Shams al-Din 'Ali (died c. 1352), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
* Shams ud din, or Shams Tabraiz (missionary) (died 1356), Ismaili saint in India
* Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah (died 1358), sultan of Bengal
* Shams al-Din Ibn Muflih (1308-1361), authority on Hanbali Law
* Shams ud-Din Amir Kulal (1278-1370), tribal head, scholar and religious figure in Turkistan
* Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah al-Khalili (1320–1380), Syrian astronomer
* Shams al-Din al-Kirmani (1317-1384), Sunni scholar
* Khwaja Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (1315–1390), Persian lyric poet
* Ali Shams al-Din II (died 1428), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
* Shams al-Din al-Fanari (1350–1431), Turkish logician, Islamic theologian, and Islamic legal academic
* Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah (1419-1436), ruler of Bengal
* Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Qutb al-Din (c. 1387 – c. 1438), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
* Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah (died 1481), ruler of Bengal
* Shamsuddin Muhammad Shah III (died 1482), sultan of Bahmani
* Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad (died 1487), sultan of Adal
* Shamsuddin Muzaffar Shah (died 1494), Abyssinian sultan of Bengal
* Shams al-Din Muhammad (died c. 1494), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
* Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman al-Sakhawi (1428–1497), Egyptian Islamic scholar
* Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi (1440-1515), Sufi Shi'a missionary in Kashmir
* Ali Shams al-Din III (died 1527), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
* Shamsuddin Muhammad Khan Sur Shah Ghazi (died 1555), Sultan of Bengal
* Shamsuddin Muhammad Ataga Khan (died 1562), minister in Mughal court
* Shams al-Din al-Ramli (1513-1596), Egyptian Shafi'i scholar
* Khawaja Shamsuddin Khawafi (died 1600), minister to Emperor Akbar

## 18th century–present

* Shamseddin Amir-Alaei (1900–1994), Iranian politician and diplomat
* Muhammad Shamsuddeen III (1879–1935), Sultan of the Maldives
* Şemsettin Günaltay (1883–1961) prime minister of Turkey
* Şemsettin Mardin, Turkish diplomat
* Abul Kalam Shamsuddin (1897–1978), Bangladeshi journalist and politician
* Abu Jafar Shamsuddin (1911–1989), Bangladeshi author and novelist
* Shamsuddin Ahmed (1920–1971), Bangladeshi surgeon
* Khwaja Shams-ud-Din (1922–1999), Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
* Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–1997), Bangladeshi author and novelist
* Shamsuddin Qasemi (1935–1996), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician
* Nasri Shamseddine (1927–1983), Lebanese singer and actor
* A. T. M. Shamsuddin (1927-2009), Bangladeshi author
* Khawaja Shamsuddin Azeemi (1927-2025), patriarch of the Sufi Order of Azeemia
* Mohammad Mehdi Shamseddine (1936–2001), Lebanese Twelver Shia Islamic scholar
* Shamsodin Vaezi (born 1936), Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja
* Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin (1938-2020), Malaysian politician
* Samsuddin Ahmed (1945–2020), Bangladeshi politician
* Shamsuddeen Usman (born 1949), Nigerian politician
* Semezdin Mehmedinović (born 1960), Bosnian writer
* Chettithody Shamshuddin (born 1970), Indian cricket umpire
* Mohammad Shamsuddin (born 1983), Bangladeshi sprinter
* Shamsuddin Amiri (born 1985), Afghan footballer
* Şemseddin Sami Efendi, pen-name of Sami Frashëri (1850–1904), Albanian writer, philosopher and playwright
* Ashari Samsudin (born 1985), Malaysian footballer
* Shamsuddin Ahmed (died 2020), Bangladeshi engineer and former MP
* AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, Bangladeshi Supreme Court judge
* Shamsuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician
* Ali Chamseddine (born 1953), Lebanese physicist
* Muhammad Ali Chamseddine (1942–2022), Lebanese poet and writer
* Chems-Eddine Hafiz (born 1954), Franco-Algerian lawyer
* Chems-Eddine Chitour (born 1944), Algerian scholar
* Chamseddine Rahmani (born 1990), Algerian footballer
* Chamseddine Harrag (born 1992), Algerian footballer
* Chamseddine Dhaouadi (born 1987), Tunisian retired footballer
* Chemseddine Chtibi (born 1982), Moroccan footballer
* Chemseddine Nessakh (born 1988), Algerian footballer