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According to Human Rights Watch, as of mid-2023, some Muslim countries do not allow women to "leave their homes without permission from their husband or other guardian without facing possible sanction" -- namely, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.
The name stems from the Arabic verb ḥabba (حَبَّ), meaning to "love", "admire, be fond of".. Another variant which is used as a given name and adjective of the stem from that verb is "maḥbūb" (مَحْبُوب) meaning "well-beloved", commonly written as Mahbub, the female equivalent Mahbuba (Arabic: maḥbūbah مَحْبُوبَة).
Islamic honorifics are not abbreviated in Arabic-script languages (e.g. Arabic, Persian, Urdu) [58] given the rarity of acronyms and abbreviations in those languages, however, these honorifics are often abbreviated in other languages such as English, Spanish, and French.
If a literal Arabic translation of a name exists, it will be placed after the final standardized romanization. If an Arabic correlation is ambiguous, (?) will be placed following the name in question. * Yasu' is the Arab Christian name, while ʿĪsā is the Muslim version of the name, as used in the Qur'an. There is debate as to which is the ...
Yahya (Arabic: يحيى, romanized: Yaḥyā), also spelled Yehya, is an Arabic male given name. [a] It is an Arabic form of the Aramaic given name Yohanan (Hebrew: יְהוֹחָנָן, romanized: Yəhoḥānān, lit. 'Yahweh is gracious') of John the Baptist in Islam, who is considered a prophet. For this reason, Yahya is a comparatively ...
After marriage, the full name would be her most called name appended with her husband's most called name. In official documents, a person's identity is established by listing both the person's full name (however they may write it), and their father's. For married women, the husband's name might be used instead of the father's.
Umm Kulthum or Umme Kulsum (Arabic: أم كلثوم) is a female given name that means "Mother of Kulthum". Several of these were connected directly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It has also been used in modern times. The list below is by approximate order of notability and divided between ancient and modern times.
Neither the Qur'an nor narrations from the ahadith state that Aziz's (Potiphar) wife's name is Zulaikha. The name is derived from the poem "Yusuf and Zulaikha" by 15th century poet Jami and later medieval Jewish sources, however in the Qur'an the name is simply "ٱمْرَأَتُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ" (roman: "Imra'at ul 'Azeez") (Aziz's wife).