Abd as-Salam

Abd as-Salam is the transliteration of a Theophoric Arabic given name.

Etymology

The name is built on the Arabic words "Abd", "al-" and "Salam". The name means "servant of the peaceful", "As-Salam" being one of the 99 names of God.

Other tranliterations include Abdul Salam, Abdoul Salam, Abdus Salam, Abd-ul-Salam, Abd al Salam.

Usage

People named such include:
*Abdul Salaam (football player) of the New York Jets American Football team
*Abdul Salam (Taliban Chief Justice), Chief Justice of the Taliban's Supreme Court
*Abdul Salam (Taliban leader, Kabul front, 2001), American intelligence analysts assert he was one of the commanders of the Taliban's Kabul Front during its 2001 collapse.
*Abdul Salam (Taliban leader, Karabak front, 2001), American intelligence analysts assert commandef the Taliban's Karabak Front.
*Abd al-Salam Ali al-Hila, a Yemeni citizen, a Guantanamo detaiee ID # 1463
*Abdul Salam Arif, president of Iraq
*Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, a Guantanamo detainee ID # 132
*Abdul-Salam Ojeili, a Syrian novelist and politician
*Abdul Salam Sabrah, an acting Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
*Abdul Salam Rocketti, a Taliban commander famous for shooting down a Soviet helicopter with a rocket propelled grenade, who ran for office in 2005.
*Abdoul Salam Sow, a Guinean football player
*Abdul Salam Zaeef, a Taliban ambassador to Pakistan
*Ashraf Salim Abd Al Salam Sultan, a Guantanamo detaiee ID # 263
*Mehdat Abdul Salam Shabana, a member of the board of directors of Konsojaya Trading Company, a terrorist front organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
*Abdesslam Yassine, leader of Moroccan Islamist organisation Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane
*Dr Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate.

ee also

*Salam (name)
*List of Arabic theophoric names