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Khalil or Khaleel (Arabic: خليل) means friend and is a common male first name in the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Balkans, North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Asia and among Muslims in South Asia and as such is also a common surname. It is also used amongst Turkic peoples of Russia and African Americans.
Malik, Maleek, Malek or Malyk (Arabic: مَالِك or مَلِك) (Urdu & (): مالک) (/ ˈ m æ l ɪ k /) is a given name of Semitic origin. [1] It is both used as first name and surname originally mainly in Western Asia by Semitic speaking Christians, Muslims and Jews of varying ethnicities, before spreading to countries in the Caucasus, South Asia, Central Asia, North Africa and ...
It is also transliterated as Osman or Usman, particularly when the name occurs in languages which either have no /θ/ sound or where the character ﺙ is pronounced differently, such as Persian, Bosnian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as some Arabic dialects. Originally the name often occurred as a nasab or patronymic in the names of children of ...
Muslim ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Islamic figure, a central figure among the early collectors of sīra—biographies of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad and hadith literature Muslim ibn Uqba , (pre-622–683) was a general of the Umayyad Caliphate during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I and his son and successor Yazid I
Nonetheless, such names are accepted in some areas. Its use is not exclusive to Muslims and throughout all Arab countries, the name Abdel-Massih, "Servant of Christ", is a common Christian last name. Converts to Islam may often continue using the native non-Arabic non-Islamic names that are without any polytheistic connotation, or association.
Ibrahim (anglicized as Ibraheem) (Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm) is the Arabic name of the prophet and patriarch Abraham and one of Allah's messengers in the Quran.It is a common male first name and surname among Muslims and Arab Christians, a cognate of the name Abraham or Avram in Judaism and Christianity in the Middle East.
Islam Chipsy, stage name of Egyptian musician Islam Said; Islam El-Shater (born 1976), Egyptian football player; Islam Karimov (1938–2016), president of Uzbekistan; Islam Makhachev (born 1991), Russian mixed martial artist, UFC Lightweight Champion; Islam Satpayev (born 1998), Kazakh sport shooter; Islam Slimani (born 1988), Algerian football ...
Ali is the most common last name in Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, Kuwait and Libya. [2] The last name can also be found among the Indian Muslim and Pakistani communities, as it is often associated with the descendants of Ali in these regions. [3] The name Ali is also used in various other cultures as a given name.