title: Shami
text: # Shami
  
  Shami may refer to:
  
  ## Regions
  
  * Damascus, also known as Shami
  * Bilad al-Sham
  * Syria
  
  ## People
  
  ### Religious groups
  
  * Shami Jews, Jews from Damascus
  * Yemenite Jews, some of them also called Shami Jews
  
  **Individuals with the nickname**
  
  * Shami-Damulla (died 1932), figure in the development of Islamic fundamentalism in Soviet Central Asia
  
  **Individuals with the given name**
  
  * Shami Abdulahi (born 1984), Ethiopian long-distance runner
  * Shami Chakrabarti (born 1960), British lawyer and politician
  * Shami Hassan (born 1984), Qatari footballer
  * Shami Kermashani (1927–1984), Iranian Kurdish poet
  
  **Individuals with the surname**
  
  * Abdullah Al Shami (born 1994), Syrian footballer
  * Abu Ishaq Shami (died 940), Muslim scholar
  * Ali Al Shami (born 1945), Lebanese academic and politician
  * Basim Shami (born 1976), Palestinian-American businessman and philanthropist
  * Farouk Shami, Palestinian-American businessman
  * Mohammed Shami (born 1990), Indian cricketer
  * Mohammed Ibrahim Shami (born 1993), Qatari footballer
  * Mubarak Hassan Shami (born 1980), Kenyan-Qatari long-distance runner
  * Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami, Pakistani journalist and columnist
  * Yitzhaq Shami (1888–1949), Palestinian Jewish writer
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Shamī: a village in Khuzestan Province of Iran
  * Shami, another name for Levantine Arabic
  * Shami, Shemi or Shimi: a village in Semnan Province of Iran
  * Shami goat or Damascus goat, a goat breed
  * Shami Hospital, a hospital in Damascus, Syria
  * Shami kebab, a type of kebab from the Indian subcontinent
  * Shami or Prosopis cineraria, the state tree of Rajasthan, India
  * Shami Statue or Statue, National Museum of Iran 2401, a statue found in Shami, Khuzestan, Iran
  * Shami-Amourae, a demon lord in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
  