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Yusuf (also transliterated as Jusuf, Yossef, Yousaf, Youcef, Yousef, Youssef, Yousif, Youssif, Youssouf, Yousuf, Yusef, Yuseff, Yusof, or Yussef, Arabic: يوسف Yūsuf and Yūsif) is a male Arabic name, meaning "God increases in piety, power and influence", and is the Arabic equivalent of the English name Joseph.
The name is given to Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Middle East and in Arabic speaking countries.
In Islam, the most famous "Yusuf" is the prophet Yusuf in the Quran.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (Urdu: ذاکر عبدالکریم نائیک; born 18 October 1965) is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organisation that owns the Peace TV channel based in Dubai, UAE. He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist. Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a doctor. He has written two booklets on Islam and comparative religion. He is regarded as an exponent of the Salafi ideology; he places a strong emphasis on individual scholarship and the rejection of "blind Taqlid", which has led him to repudiate the relevance of sectarian or Madh'hab designations, all the while reaffirming their importance.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik was born on 18 October 1965 in Mumbai, India. He attended St. Peter's High School in Mumbai. Later he enrolled at Kishinchand Chellaram College, before studying medicine at Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital and later the University of Mumbai, where he obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS). His wife, Farhat Naik, works for the women's section of the IRF.
Hamza Yusuf Hanson is an American Islamic scholar, and (with Zaid Shakir and Hatem Bazian) is co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, United States. He is a convert to Islam, and is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding. He has described the 9/11 attacks as "an act of 'mass murder, pure and simple'". Condemning the attacks, he has also stated "Islam was hijacked ... on that plane as an innocent victim".The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom reported that he "is arguably the west's most influential Islamic scholar" and added that "many Muslims find his views hard to stomach."
Hamza Yusuf was born to two academics in Washington State and raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. Hamza Yusuf spent four years studying in the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere in the Middle East. Later he traveled to West Africa and studied in Mauritania, Medina, Algeria, and Morocco under such scholars as Murabit al Haaj; Baya bin Salik, head of the Islamic court in Al-'Ain, United Arab Emirates; Muhammad Shaybani, Mufti of Abu Dhabi; Hamad al-Wali; and Muhammad al-Fatrati of Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.[citation needed] After more than a decade abroad, he returned to the United States and earned degrees in nursing from Imperial Valley College and religious studies at San José State University.[citation needed]
Actors: Sergey Garmash (actor), Viktor Verzhbitskiy (actor), Timur Bekmambetov (producer), Timur Bekmambetov (director), Konstantin Khabenskiy (actor), Artur Smolyaninov (actor), Ekaterina Vilkova (actress), Vera Brezhneva (actress), Mariya Poroshina (actress), Ivan Urgant (actor), Aleksandr Golovin (actor), Galina Stakhanova (actress), Pavel Melenchuk (actor), Yuriy Korchuganov (miscellaneous crew), Olga Tumaykina (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Bettina Brokemper (producer), Alexander Bohr (producer), Ayhan Ergürsel (editor), Semih Kaplanoglu (editor), Semih Kaplanoglu (producer), Semih Kaplanoglu (writer), Semih Kaplanoglu (director), Tülin Özen (actress), Erdal Besikçioglu (actor), Johannes Rexin (producer), Ozge Ozturk (costume designer), Suzan Hande Güneri (editor), Orçun Köksal (writer), Alev Uçarer (actor), Kamil Yilmaz (actor),
Plot: The young boy Yusuf's best friend is his father, who supports his family's modest life with the honey he collects from tall trees in the forests of the remote Turkish countryside. Yusuf is a quiet boy, and his mother is concerned for his future. Perhaps he will follow in his father's footsteps, or perhaps school will offer him other opportunities. But the honey crop is failing, and Yusuf has trouble learning how to read. The greatest fear strikes when Yusuf's father doesn't return home from the forest.
Keywords: accident, agriculture, barn, beast-fable, bee, beehive, beekeeper, beekeeping, betrayal, boyActors: Ryan Kavanaugh (producer), Michael De Luca (producer), Mare Winningham (actress), Ken Halsband (producer), Ethan Suplee (actor), Natalie Portman (actress), Luce Rains (actor), James D. Dever (actor), Jake Gyllenhaal (actor), Navid Negahban (actor), Tobey Maguire (actor), Sam Shepard (actor), Clifton Collins Jr. (actor), Tucker Tooley (producer), Sigurjon Sighvatsson (producer),
Plot: Before leaving on his second tour in Afghanistan, Marine Captain Sam Cahill, a leader, an athlete, a good husband and father, welcomes his screw-up brother Tommy home from prison. He'd robbed a bank. In country, Sam's helicopter is shot down and all are presumed dead. Back home, while Sam wastes away as a prisoner in a remote encampment, Tommy tries to take care of the widow and her two children. While imprisoned, Sam experiences horrors unbearable, so when he's rescued and returns home, he's silent, detached, without affect, and he's convinced his wife and brother have slept together. Demons of war possess him; what will silence them?
Keywords: afghan-war, afghanistan, ah-64-apache-helicopter, american-flag, american-soldier, anger, balloon, bar, bare-chested-male, bartenderActors: Nikos Kanakis (producer), Katerina Moutsatsou (actress), Turgay Tanülkü (actor), Ali Poyrazoglu (actor), Metin Belgin (writer), Metin Belgin (editor), Aytekin Birkon (editor), Metin Belgin (actor), Memet Ali Alabora (actor), Katerina Papoutsaki (actress), Mustafa Alabora (actor), Biket Ilhan (producer), Biket Ilhan (director), Erkan Tekemen (miscellaneous crew), Sanem Çelik (actress),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Johan Rabaeus (actor), Lena Nyman (actress), Göran Forsmark (actor), Thorsten Flinck (actor), Wallis Grahn (actress), Lotta Gummesson (miscellaneous crew), Cecilia Nilsson (actress), Stig Larsson (writer), Bengt Johansen (writer), Bengt Johansen (editor), Bengt Johansen (director), Elisabeth Christoffersson (costume designer), Gunilla Larsson-Yous (miscellaneous crew), Rakel Wärmländer (actress), Carina Jingroth (actress),
Plot: Asker is always after money and everybody knows he doesn't have any scruples. He gets accused of stealing a lottery ticket from the mentally-handicapped Musse. Simultaneously he meets a man at a café named Claes Douglas who promises to pay Asker if he does a favour for him.
Keywords: lotteryActors: Tarik Akan (actor), Hülya Avsar (actress), Türker Inanoglu (producer), Erdogan Tünas (writer), Osman F. Seden (director), Belkis Dilligil (actress), Nuri Alço (actor), Sehnaz Dilan (actress), Zümrüt Cansel (actress),
Plot: Sahin is a courageous inspector investigating prostitution cases. Yusuf is one of the notorious gang leaders. He traps young women and turns them into prostitutes. As one of his girls attempts committing suicide, he gets on thin ice. Yusuf leaves the girl in the woods but another call-girl named Cagla witnesses this. She asks help from Cagla who also is a call-girl and Cagla takes her into her house in order to protect her friend from Yusuf. However he finds her place. As events follow each other Cagla and Sahin fall in love. They work cooperatively to catch Yusuf and his big bosses. In the end, the culprits get the penalty they deserve and Cagla and Sahin will start a brand new life together.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Tarik Akan (actor), Erdogan Seren (actor), Yilmaz Güney (producer), Yilmaz Güney (writer), Serif Gören (director), Yilmaz Güney (director), Yilmaz Güney (editor), Marie-Christine Malbert (miscellaneous crew), Halil Ergün (actor), Hikmet Tasdemir (actor), Edi Hubschmid (producer), Meral Orhonsay (actress), Serif Sezer (actress), Tuncay Akça (actor), Zülfü Livaneli (composer),
Plot: A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world outside.
Keywords: actual-animal-killed, adultery, apartheid, censorship, child-smoking, epic, exile, feudalism, independence, kurdActors: Len Hendry (actor), Charles La Torre (actor), James Griffith (actor), John Abbott (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), John Derek (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Henry Brandon (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Sebastian Cabot (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Raymond Massey (actor), Roger Creed (actor),
Plot: Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
Keywords: assassin, character-name-in-title, iran, khayyám, persia, persian, philosopher, philosophy, poet, poetryActors: B.R. Chopra (director), Jeevan (actor), Sunder (actor), Meena Kumari (actress), Achala Sachdev (actress), I.S. Johar (writer), Agha (actor), Shekhar (actor), Roshan (composer), Yashodra Katju (actress), Kumar (actor), Smriti Biswas (actress), D.P. Berry (writer), Kamil Rashid (writer),
Plot: Nawab Safdarjung( Kumar ) lives in Delhi with his family and is a very fun loving person. She has a daughter Zarina ( Meena Kumari ) who is of marriageable age. While there are other candidates to hold her hand, the Nawab decides on Akbar ( Shekhar ) a young son of a noble nawab family from Lucknow. Everything goes well until few minutes before the marriage ceremony, Ibrahim ( played by Jeevan ) divulges to the Nawab that Akbar is only a son of a mali ( gardener ) and has no respectable family trace in his blood. The Nawab becomes furious and dissolves the marriage ceremony but Zarina decides to go the in-laws house and accepts Akbar as her husband. Akbar in the meantime disappears from his home and ends up in Cairo ( Egypt) and takes a job as a Manager of a factory. Zarina and her mother still waiting for words from Akbar when some money is sent to them by Akbar. In Cairo a dancer falls in love with Akbar and writes a letter to Zarina and her mother that Akbar is dead. Watch how this triangular love story ends with Akbar eventually comes back to his homeland and rejoins with his wife Zarina.
Genres: Drama, Family,