Tahir
Tahir ( Arabic طاهر) is a male given name of Arabic origin meaning "real", "pure", "chaste", "strict". The name comes in the Arabic and Persian-speaking areas, in Turkey , Azerbaijan , Uzbekistan and in the Balkans as well as in other Muslim cultures, e.g. B. in the Russian republics Tatarstan , Bashkortostan , Dagestan etc. in the form "Тагир" (Tagir), and occurs as a family name .
Name bearer
First name
- Tahir Cevik ( Tachiles; * 1970), German-Turkish rapper
- Tahir Musa Ceylan (* 1956), Turkish poet, author and philosopher
- Tahir Djide (1939–2009), Indonesian badminton coach
- Tahir Elçi (1966–2015), Kurdish-Turkish lawyer and human rights activist
- Tahir Gülec (* 1993), German Taekwondoin
- Tahir Karapınar (* 1967), Turkish football player and coach
- Tahir Nejat Özyılmazel ( Neco; * 1948), Turkish pop singer and actor
- Tahir Yahya (1913–1986), Iraqi general and politician
Intermediate name
- Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928–2003), fourth caliphate ul-Massih
- Mustafa Tahir Babaoğlu (* 1992), Turkish football player
- Sayed Tahir Shah (* 1980), Afghan national soccer player
family name
- Abdul Razaq Muhyiddin Hassan Tahir (* 1936), Ghanaian diplomat
- Abdullah bin Tahir (around 798 – around 844), governor of Khorasan
- Abū Tāhir al-Jannābī (906–944), second leader of the Qarmatians
- Ahmed El-Tahir , Sudanese football player
- Aminuddin Zakwan Tahir (* 1994), Brunei football player
- Amir Ajmal Tahir (* 1988), Bruneian football player
- Anas El-Tahir (* 1975), Sudanese football player
- Athar El-Tahir (* 1996), Sudanese football player
- Dato Sri Tahir (* 1952), Indonesian entrepreneur
- Faran Tahir (born 1963), Pakistani-American actor
- Hacène Tahir (* 1946), Algerian football player
- Hardi Tahir (* 1985), Iraqi soccer player
- Kamel Tahir (* 1945), Algerian football goalkeeper
- Kemal Tahir (1910–1973), Turkish writer and translator
- Mousa El-Tahir , Sudanese soccer player
- Mudathir Karika El-Tahir (* 1988), Sudanese football player
- Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (* 1951), Pakistani scholar of Islam
- Sabaa Tahir (* 1983), Pakistani-American author
Buildings
- Tahir Mosque (Koblenz) in Koblenz