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ʿAlāʾ d-Dīn (علاء الدين) in the Arabian Nights ʿAlāʾ d-Dīn is an Arabic epithet built from In the context of name-giving, the positional elevator ʿAla is used to amplify the value of a given name. ʿAlā (علا) and al-Dīn (الدين). In Malay, the word is roughly equivalent to “Adhidharma (अधिधर्म)”. In English, the word can be approximated to “ e.g. Louis the Pious, King of the Franks (r. 814 - d. 840); Robert the Pious, King of the Franks, (r. 987 - d. 1031); Henry the Pious, High Duke of Poland (r. 1238 - d. 1241); John the Pious, King of Portugal (1521 - 1557); Pius is also a regularly used regnal name in Catholic Church, e.g. Pope Pius I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII. the Pious ” or “the Religious” since the word Dīn (دين) means religion in Arabic.