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*[[Abdul Alim Musa]] (born 1945), American Muslim activist
*[[Abdul Alim Musa]] (born 1945), American Muslim activist
*Issam Abdel-Tawab Abdel Alim, full name of [[Issam Alim]], convicted in Egypt for terrorist offences
*Issam Abdel-Tawab Abdel Alim, full name of [[Issam Alim]], convicted in Egypt for terrorist offences
*[[Dr.Abdul Aleem]]


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 10:51, 22 August 2015

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:

See also

References

  1. ^ Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.
  2. ^ S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.