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Anṣâr (, meaning aiders, or patrons) refer to a class of warriors who are renowned for their arsenal of weapons and for their speed and mobility on the battlefield. The quality of the Arabian horses quickly led to these soldiers dominating the battlefield, making ample use of their array of weaponry, which consisted of javelins, a sword, and bow and arrows. The one military unit that was present in nearly all of the Arabic expansion of the 7th to 9th centuries was the Anṣâr Warrior. These warriors participated as infantry, but most commonly rode on horseback and were famed to be the greatest horsemen/infantry of their time.
Ansar (Arabic for "helpers") may refer to:
- Ansar, Hamadan, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
- Ansar, Lebanon, a village in south Lebanon
- Ansar, North Khorasan, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
- Ansar Rural District, in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Ansar, a village in Siwan district of Bihar, India
- Ansar (Islam), citizens from Medina who helped Mohammed
- Ansar (military), a class of Arabian warriors
- Ansar (Sudan), a Sufi religious movement in the Sudan
- Al Ansar Club (Libya), a Libyan football team
- Al-Ansar F.C., a Saudi Arabian football club
- Al-Ansar SC, a Lebanese football team
- Al-Ansar (Saudi Arabia, basketball)
- Ansar Brigade, a Syrian rebel group
- Ansar al-Islam, a Sunni Islamist group of Iraqis promoting a radical interpretation of Islam
- Ansar-e Hezbollah, a militant conservative Islamic group in Iran
- Ansar al-Sharia (disambiguation), a number of Islamist groups active in the Arab world
- Ansar Dine, a Tuareg Islamist group, accused of having links with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other Islamist groups
- Ansaru, a Nigerian Islamist group, in conflict with the Nigerian state
- Ansarullah (Ahmadiyya), an auxiliary organization of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- Anshar, an ancient Babylonian sky god
- Bangladesh Ansar, an internal security force in Bangladesh
- The Nuwaubian Nation, formerly the Ansaaru Allah Community, a black nationalist group founded by Malachi Z. York
Ansar ( , "The Helpers") is an Islamic term for the local inhabitants of Medina who took the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and his followers (the Muhajirun) into their homes when they escaped from Mecca ( hijra).
They belonged to two main tribes of Azd, the Banu Khazraj and the Banu Aus. Azd is the same tribe that Ghamd tribe and Zahran tribe belong to.
The Ansar , or followers of the Mahdi, is a Sufi religious movement in the Sudan whose followers are disciples of Muhammad Ahmad (12 August 1844 – 22 June 1885), the self-proclaimed Mahdi.
Northern Sudan has long been inhabited by Arabic-speaking people who farm the Nile valley and follow a nomadic pastoral way of life elsewhere. Sudan came under Egyptian suzerainty when an Ottoman force conquered and occupied the region in 1820–21. Muhammed Ahmad, a Sudanese religious leader based on Aba Island, proclaimed himself Mahdi on 29 June 1881. His followers won a series of victories against the Egyptians culminating in the capture of Khartoum in January 1885.
Muhammed Ahmad died a few months later. His successor, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, maintained the independence of the Mahdist state until 1898, when an Anglo-Egyptian force regained control. The Mahdi's eldest surviving son, Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, was the religious and political leader of the Ansar throughout most of the colonial era of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1955) and for a few years after the Sudan gained independence in January 1956. His descendants have led the movement since then.
Usage examples of "ansar".
Every Ansar came to the Year Tower of their city and voted on this choice: Shall we follow the Bayder Way or the Manad?
Armed only with spears and rocks the Ansar had, in the past six months, destroyed three armies of the infidels and slaughtered their soldiers to the man.
As they closed with the steamer and her tangled string of barges the Ansar shrieked their terrible praise of God, and brandished their broadswords.
Nor was there time to anchor, for the Dervish boats closed in swiftly: as they reached the barges they hooked on to the sides and the Ansar warriors tried to clamber aboard, but they were unable to obtain a foothold on the packed decks.
In its stark beam the faces of the Ansar were murderous with battle lust and religious ardour.
Dervish Ansar hacked their way on board and the passengers were driven like sardines before a barracuda to the far rail of the ungainly craft.
Ryder saw that some of the Ansar were freeing the tow lines that held the barges together and passing the cables down to the dhows.
The Ansar were so busy with their bloody work on the deck that they did not seem to notice the this bearing down on them.
The three surviving barges were no longer linked together, for the Ansar had succeeded in freeing the lines.
Ryder was forced to throttle back and watch helplessly in horror and pity as the Ansar scrambled aboard and their bloody work began again.
Ryder played the spotlight along the bank, hoping to intimidate the Ansar marksmen or, at least, to illuminate them so that his own crew could return fire more accurately.
Though neither Ryder nor David was aware of it, the master gunner commanding the mounted battery was the Ansar whom David had dubbed the Bedlam Bedouin.
The Ansar were so blinded by the steam that they did not see her coming.
Did I not decree that they be known as my Ansar, my helpers and partisans?
While his Ansar followed behind him and gathered up the offerings, the Mahdi preached to them.