Al-Shams is the Arabic word for "the sun" () and may refer to:

Ash-Shams, the 91st Sura of the Quran Shamash, the Semitic Sun god (unrelated to Islam) Ain Shams University, a university located in Cairo, Egypt Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Golan Heights (Migdal Shemesh in Hebrew) Al-Shams (newspaper), a Libyan newspaper in Arabic Al-Shams (East Pakistan), a paramilitary wing of several parties in East Pakistan abolished in 1971 Shams Abu Dhabi, a real estate development on Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

See also Shams (disambiguation)