‘Abdullah (name)

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name = Abdullah


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related names = Abdullah, Abd Allah, Abdallah, and Abdalla
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‘Abdullāh ( _ar. عبد الله "servant of God", also spelled "Abdullah", "Abd Allah", "Abdallah", and "Abdalla") is a common Arabic name. Humility before God is an essential value of Islam, hence "Abdullah" is a favorite name among Muslims. There have been many notable figures named ‘Abdullah:

*Abd-Allah ibn Abd-al-Muttalib (545-570), the father of Muhammad.
*Abdallah El-Yafi, Former Lebanese Prime Minister
*‘Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa, also known as Abu Bakr.
*Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy, a leading inhabitant of Medina and contemporary of Muhammad.
*`Abd Allah ibn Rawahah, general in the Battle of Mut'ah.
*‘Abdullah ibn Sa‘ad, the son of Said and foster-brother of Caliph Uthman ibn Affan, led the Muslim invasion of Libya from 647 to 648.
*‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad, seventh Emir of Córdoba (888-912).
*Abdullah (Almohad Caliph), Caliph of Morocco (1224-1227).
*‘Abdullah (Chagatai Khanate) (d. 1359), ruler of the Chagatai.
*‘Abdullah (Timurid) (d. 1451), ruler of the Timurid Empire.
*Abdullah bin Saud, leader of the House of Saud (1814-1818).
*Abdullah I of Jordan, emir of Transjordan (1921-46), then King of Transjordan (1946-49), then King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (1949-51).
*Abdullah Gül, President of the Republic of Turkey.
*‘Abdullah Yusuf ‘Azzam (1941-1989), an Islamist leader, assassinated in 1989.
*Abdullah II of Jordan, King of Jordan (1999-)
*King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*Sheikh Abdullah (1905–1982), known as Sher-e-Kashmir, Prime Minister of Kashmir.
*Dr. Abdullah, sometimes called Abdullah Abdullah, the former foreign minister of Afghanistan.
*Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the current prime minister of Malaysia.
*Abdullah Öcalan, Kurdish opposition leader and founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party.
*Abdullah, a horse that competed in the sport of show jumping.
*Abdullah the Butcher, professional wrestler known to attack opponents with forks
* Tewfik Abdullah, one of the first African soccer players in the U.K. and U.S
*Abdullah al-Amiri, a judge in the trial of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was replaced after allegations of bias.
*three priests named Abdallah were martyred with Abda and Abdjesus
*Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, an early nineteenth-century Malay writer
* Meer Abdullah Harun, a Bangladeshi writerThe name is cognate to and has the same meaning as Hebrew Abdiel.

Other

*Qaysān (Abdullah Qeissan), also called Abdullah
*Abdulla (film) a 1960 Hindi film

ee also

* Servant of God
* Dasa