Ahrar

Ahrar or Al Ahrar is an Arabic word meaning free ones (singular is Al Hurr). It can also be translated also as liberal. It is also name of many political parties and groupings.

Ahrar may refer to:

Parties

• Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, Pakistan, (Syed Ata-ul-Muhaimin Bukhari leader of the party)
• Ahrar Party (Azerbaijan)
• Ahrar Party (Egypt)
• Ahrar Party (India), (Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari and Chaudhry Afzal Haq were the founders)
• National Liberal Party (Lebanon), or Al-Wataniyyuun al Ahrar, center-right political party in Lebanon
• Ahrar' Party, early 20th century party of the Ottoman Empire, founded by Ismail Kemal Bey Vlora
• Hizb al-Ahrar, or the Liberal Socialists Party or Liberal Party, a political party in Egypt

Groups and movements

• Al-Ahrar Bloc, Iraqi Shia Islamist political coalition formed for the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election and headed by Dia Najem Abdallah al-Asadi.
• Ahrar ul Hind (literally freedom fighters of India), militant Islamist group in Pakistan that split from the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
• Ahrar al-Jazeera, group of Arab tribesmen that have been active during the Syrian Civil War
• Ahrar ash-Sham, coalition of multiple Islamist and Salafist units, formed into a single brigade during the Syrian Civil War
• Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, militant Islamist group that split away from the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
• Liwa Ahrar Souriya, group of fighters that has been active during the Syrian civil war
• Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam, also known in short as Ahrar, liberal Muslim political party in the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj (prior to the partition of India)

Media

• Al Ahrar (weekly), an Arabic weekly newspaper published in Egypt from 1977 to 2013

Places

• Umm al Ahrar, a Saharan desert oasis town in the Fezzan region of southwest Libya