Abdul Ahad
Abdul Ahad (Arabic: عبد الاحد) is an Arabic male given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Ahad. The name means "servant of the only One", Al-Ahad being one of the names of God in Islam. It is listed in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.[1][2] Abdul-Ahad is also common among Arabic-speaking Christians, particularly Syriac Catholics -- several of whose clergymen, including the late patriarch Ignatius Peter VIII Abdul-Ahad, have borne the name.
The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by u. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
It may refer to:
- Abd ul-Aḥad Dāwūd, name adopted by David Benjamin Keldani (1867–c.1940), Persian Catholic priest who converted to Islam
- Abdul-Ahad Dawood Tappouni, birth name of Ignatius Gabriel I Tappuni (1879–1968), patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church
- Abdul Ahad Wardak (c.1880–1949), Afghan politician
- Abdul Ahad Azad (1903–1948), Kashmiri poet
- Abdul Ahad (music director) (1918–1996), Bangladeshi lyricist and music director
- Abdul Ahad Karzai, (1922–1999), Afghan politician
- Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad (born 1930), patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church
- Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit (born 1942), chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China
- Abdul Ahad Momand (born 1959), Afghan-German cosmonaut
- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (born 1975), Iraqi journalist
- Abdulahad Malik (born 1986), Indian cricketer
- Shah Abdul Ahad Afzali, Afghan politician
- Abdel Ahad Gamal El Din, Egyptian politician
References
- Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.
- S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.
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