Abdul Alim

Abdul Alim, also transliterated Abdul Aleem, (Arabic: عبد العليم‎) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Alim. The name means "servant of the All-knowing", Al-'Alīm being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.^[1]^[2]

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 second part can be spelled Alim or Aleem, or in other ways, with the whole name subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

Abdul Aleem Siddiqi (1892–1954), Bangladeshi Sufi teacher
Abdulalim A. Shabazz (born 1927), American mathematician
Abdul Alim (folk singer) (1931–1974), Bangladeshi folk musician
Abdul Alim Musa (born 1945), American Muslim activist
Issam Abdel-Tawab Abdel Alim, full name of Issam Alim, convicted in Egypt for terrorist offences
Abdul Aleem (professor) (former Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University)

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.

[ahmed-1] Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.

[rahman-2] S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.

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