Wali (disambiguation)
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Wali is an Arabic word meaning guardian, custodian, protector, or helper. In English, it most often means a Muslim saint or holy person. It has sometimes been extended to mean the tomb or shrine of such a man.
Wali or WALI may also refer to:
- Wali (Islamic legal guardian)
- Al-Walī (Arabic:الولي) and Al-Wālī (Arabic:الوالي), are two related names of God in Islam
- Wāli, an administrative title used by the Arabic and Ottoman Caliphates
- Wali, weli, wely or welli, a synonym for a Muslim maqam (shrine), used in Palestine and in older Western scholarly literature
- Wali language (Sudan), a Nubian language
- Wali language (Ghana), a Gur language
- Wali (band), an Indonesian band
- Wali, Mauritania, an alternate spelling of Waly Diantang, a village in the Gorgol Region
- WALI, a radio station (1280 AM) licensed to serve Dayton, Tennessee, United States
- WOEZ (FM), a radio station (93.7 FM) licensed to serve Burton, South Carolina, United States, which used the call sign WALI from 1996 to 2017
- Wali (game), two-player abstract strategy game
People
[edit]- Wali Muhammad Wali
- Wali (sniper), Canadian sniper
- Wali (given name)
- Wali (surname)
See also
[edit]- Vali (disambiguation)
- Auliya (disambiguation), plural of Wali