Abu (name)
Abu or Abū is the nickname for the following people:
- Abu Azrael (* 1977 or 1978), Iraqi Shiite militia commander
- Abu Bakar of Pahang (1904–1974), King of Malaysia, Sultan of Pahang
- Abu Hamid al-Gharnati († 1170), Arab traveler, geographer and writer
- Abu Hammu I. Musa († 1318), Sultan of the Abdalwadids in Algeria (1308-1318)
- Abu Hammu II. Musa († 1388), Sultan of the Abdalwadids in Algeria
- Abu Kalidschar († 1048), Buyid ruler
- Abu Muhammad ibn al-Baitar († 1248), Arab physician, botanist and pharmacologist
- Abu Tahir as-Sa'igh († 1113), head of the Ismailis in Syria
- Abu Tashfin I († 1337), Sultan of the Abdalwadids in Algeria (1318–1337)
- Abu Thabit Amir († 1308), Sultan of Morocco
- Abu Umar ibn Said († 1287), Raʾīs of Manūrqa
- Abu Uthman Said ibn Hakam al-Quraschi (1204–1282), Raʾīs of Menorca
- Abu Walaa (* 1984), man of Iraqi origin who works as an Islamic preacher in Germany
- Abu Yahya (Mallorca) († 1230), Moorish governor on the Balearic island of Mallorca
- Abu Yaqub Yusuf († 1307), ruler of the Merinids in Morocco (1286–1307)
- Abu Yaqub Yusuf I († 1184), second caliph of the Almohads (1163–1184)
- Abu Yusuf Yaqub († 1286), third sultan of the Merinids in Morocco
- Abu al-Salt (1067–1134), Andalusian-Arab polymath
- Abu el-Haggag († 1243), Sufi Sheikh
- Abu l-Asakir († 896), ruler of the Tulunids
- Abu l-Atahiya , Arabic poet
- Abu l-Fawaris (957–987), ruler of the Ichschidids in Egypt (968–969)
- Abu l-Gharaniq Muhammad II († 875), Emir of the Aghlabids in Ifriqiya (864–875)
- Abu l-Qasim ad-Dibaji , Imam of the Zain-al-Abidin Mosque (Kuwait); Secretary General of the World Organization of Pan-Islamic Jurisprudence
- Abu sch-Schalaghlagh († 899), third grand master of the Ismailis in Salamya
- Abu ʿAli al-Chayyat , Muslim astrologer
- Al-Mansur Abu Bakr (1321–1341), Sultan of the Mamluks in Egypt
- Abū Ayyūb al-Ansārī , companion of the Prophet Muhammad
- Abū Bakr ibn Sālim (1513–1584), Sufi scholar
- Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī , companion of the Prophet Mohammed
- Abū Lubāba , Nuqaba (leader) of Medina, under the command of Muhammad, one of 12
- Abū Mansūr al-ʿIdschlī , founder of an extreme Shiite sect
- Abū Michnaf († 774), Arab historian
- Abū Muhammad al-Kikunī (1835–1913), Avar sheikh
- Abū Quhāfa , father of the first caliph Abu Bakr
- Abū Rāfiʿ († 627), opponent of Muhammad
- Abū Salama ibn ʿAbd al-Asad († 625), contemporary of Muhammad
- Abū Saʿīd (1305-1335), Mongolian Ilkhan of Persia
- Abū Yazīd Machlad ibn Kaidād (873-947), leader of the Kharijites in Ifriqiya
- Abū d-Dardā ' , Prophet Companion of Muhammad
- Abū l-Aswad ad-Duʾalī († 688), Arabic lexicographer, Koran reader and grammarian
- Abū l-Faraj Hārūn ibn Faraj , Karaean scholar
- Abū l-Hudhail , speculative theologian of the Muʿtazilites
- Abū l-Laith as-Samarqandī (944–983), Hanafi Faqih and Maturidite theologian
- Abū l-Makārim , Copt and writer
- Abū l-Qāsim al-Balchī († 931), Muʿtazilite scholar
- Abū l-Walīd ibn Ruschd († 1126), Maliki scholar and judge
- Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Laukarī , Islamic philosopher and poet
- Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Shīʿī († 911), Ismaili missionary in the Maghreb
- Abū ʿInān Fāris (1329–1358), Sultan of the Merinids in Morocco
- Abū ʿUbaid al-Bakrī (1014-1094), Spanish-Arab geographer and historian
- Abū ʿUbaida Muslim ibn Abī Karīma , Islamic legal scholar
- Abū ʿUbaida ibn al-Jarrāh († 638), companion of Muhammad (Sahaba)
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