Ahrar Explained

Ahrar (Arabic, 'freemen' or 'liberals') may refer to:

Organisations and political parties

• Ahrar Party (Azerbaijan), 1918–1920
• Liberal Socialists Party (Hizb al-Ahrar), Egypt, founded 1976
• Ahrar Party (India), or Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, founded in Punjab 1929
  • Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
• National Liberal Party (Lebanon), or Al-Wataniyyuun al Ahrar, founded 1958
• Al-Ahrar Bloc, Iraq, founded in 2014
• Ahrar ul Hind, Pakistan, founded in 2014
• Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a Pakistani terrorist organization, founded 2014

Syrian Civil War groups

• Ahrar al-Jazeera brigade
• Ahrar al-Sham
• Jaysh al-Ahrar
• Ahrar al-Sharkas
• Ahrar al-Sharqiya
• Liwa Ahrar Souriya

Media

• Al Ahrar (weekly), Egyptian newspaper (1977–2013)
• Libya Al Ahrar TV, Libyan TV channel

Places

• Ahrar Vocational School, a public school in Tehran Province, Iran.

People

• Al-Hurr ibn Yazid al Tamimi, a general of the Umayyad army
• Al-Hurr al-Amili (1624–1693), a Twelver Shi’a scholar
• Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi, an early Umayyad governor

Other uses

• Al-Ahrar subdistrict, An Numaniyah district, Wasit Governorate, Iraq
• Banu al-Ahrar, or al Abna, a colony in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Yemen
• Al Hurr, the star Lambda Aurigae
• Al-Hurr SC, an Iraqi football team
• Horr (book) (Persian: حر), by Ali Shariati

See also

• • • Hur (disambiguation)
• Hurra (disambiguation)
• Hurriya (disambiguation)
• Hur (Bible), a companion of Moses and Aaron
• Ben-Hur (disambiguation)
• Umm al Ahrar, a Saharan desert oasis town in the Fezzan region of southwest Libya