Abdur Rauf (Arabic: عبد الرؤوف) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Rauf. The name means "servant of the Lenient One", Ar-Ra'ūf 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. Because the letter r is a sun letter, the letter l of the al- is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written in Arabic with letters corresponding to Abd al-Rauf, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Abd ar-Rauf. Alternative transliterations include Abdul Raouf and others, all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
It may refer to:
Arts
- Abdurrauf Fitrat (1886–1938), Uzbek, cultural modernist active in Soviet Central Asia
- Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996), Bengali writer
- Abdul Rauf Anjum (1930–1992), Pakistani writer, poet, philosopher and translator
- Abdul-Rauf Khalid, Pakistani filmmaker
Politics / Religion
- Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, or just Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Palestinian leader
- Abdul Rauf al-Kasm (born 1932), Syrian politician
- Abdool Raouf Bundhun (born 1937), Vice President of Mauritius
- Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh (born 1939), Jordanian politician
- Munshi Abdur Rouf (1943–1971), soldier hero in the Bangladesh Liberation War
- Feisal Abdul Rauf (born 1948), Arab-American imam and author
- Rana Abdul Rauf (born 1953), Pakistani politician
- Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh, or just Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (1960–2010), Palestinian, Hamas military commander
- Abdul Rauff Hibathul Hakeem, or just Rauff Hakeem (born 1960), Sri Lankan politician
- Abderraouf Jdey (born 1965), Tunisian-Canadian accused of terrorism
- Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammed Abu Al Qusin (born 1965), Libyan held in Guantanamo
- Abdul Rauf Khan (born 1969), Pakistani politician
- Abdul Rauf (anti-Taliban cleric), imam at the Herati Mosque in Kabul
- "Mullah" Abdul Rauf Aliza, also known as Abdul Rauf Khadim, a Taliban commander, allegedly tied to ISIS at time of his death
- Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi -- Speaker for Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga
Sports
- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (formerly Chris Wayne Jackson) (born 1969), American basketball player
- Md Abdur Rouf (born 1974), Bangladeshi kabaddi player
- Abdur Rauf (cricketer) (born 1978), Pakistani cricketer
- Abderraouf Zarabi (born 1979), Algerian footballer
- Ahmed Abdel-Raouf (born 1986), Egyptian footballer
- Abdul Rauf (cricketer) (born 1998), Pakistani cricketer
Others
- Birshreshtha Munshi Abdur Rouf Library and Museum, Bangladesh