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The word Qāʾim (Arabic: القائم) has multiple meanings:
- Al-Qa'im (town), a town in Iraq, located near the Syrian border and situated along the Euphrates River
- Al-Qa'im (district), the district in which the above town is located
- Muhammad al-Qa'im Bi-Amrillah, the second Fatimid Caliph in Ifriqiya (893-946)
- Al-Qa'im (caliph), an Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad. The son of al-Qadir (1031-1075)
- Al-Qa'im (Cairo), an Abbasid Caliph on behalf of Mamluk Sultans of Cairo (1451-1455)
- Al-Qa'im (person), a messiah-like figure in Shi'a Islam, similar to the Mahdi
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