Muslim (name)
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| Pronunciation | Arabic: [muslim] Persian: [muslim] |
|---|---|
| Gender | male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Arabic |
| Meaning | muslim |
Muslim (Arabic: مُسْلِم muslim), also transliterated as Moslem or Müslüm (Turkish), is an Arabic male given name meaning 'pure, clear, immaculate, clean, taintless, straight, absolute', 'devout, god-fearing, pious, complaisant, obedient, submissive', 'virtuous, chaste, modest, blameless, innocent'.
It is also the proper name for the followers of the religion Islam and solely a Muslim name.
The name Muslim is a diminutive of the name Aslam (أَسْلَم aslam), which both names stems from the male noun-name Salaam.
It may refer to:
Given name[edit]
Moslem[edit]
- Moslem Bahadori (1927–2022), Iranian medical scientist
- Moslem Eskandar-Filabi (born 1944), Iranian wrestler
- Moslem Al Freej (born 1988), Saudi footballer
- Moslem Firoozabadi, Iranian footballer
- Moslem Malakouti (1924–2014), Grand Ayatollah, Iranian Shiite cleric, Marja
- Moslem Mesigar (born 1984), Iranian beach soccer player
- Moslem Mojademi, Iranian footballer
- Moslem Niadoost (born 1990), Iranian middle-distance runner
- Moslem Oladghobad (born 1995), Iranian futsal player
- Moslem Rostamiha (born 1992), Iranian futsal player
- Moslem Uddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician
Muslim[edit]
Titular
- Abu Muslim, full name Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (born 718/19 or 723/27, died 755), Persian general in service of the Abbasid dynasty, who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Nishapuri, d. 875 CE, hadith scholar
- Muslim ibn Aqil, Islamic figure, son of Aqil ibn Abi Talib and a member of the clan of Bani Hashim, thus, he is a cousin of Hussain ibn Ali
- Muslim ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Islamic figure, a central figure among the early collectors of sīra—biographies of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad and hadith literature
- Muslim ibn Uqba, (pre-622–683) was a general of the Umayyad Caliphate during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I and his son and successor Yazid I
- Muslim ibn Sa'id al-Kilabi, was governor of Khurasan for the Umayyad Caliphate in 723–724.
Given name
- Muslim Agaýew (born 1974), Turkmenistani professional football
- Muslim Ahmad (born 1989), Malaysian footballer
- Muslim Arogundade (born 1926), Nigerian athlete
- Muslim Daliyev (born 1964), Russian footballer and football coach
- Muslim Magomayev (composer) (1885–1937), Azerbaijani composer and conductor
- Muslim Magomayev (musician) (1942–2008), dubbed the "King of Songs" and the "Soviet Sinatra", Soviet Azerbajiani baritone operatic pop singer
- Muslim Mubarak (born 1985), Iraqi footballer
- Muslim Salikhov, Russian martial artist
- Muslim Sattarov (born 1965), Uzbekistani ice dancer
- Muslim Yar (born 1999), German cricketer
Müslüm (Turkish or Turkic spelling)
- Müslüm Aydoğan (born 1989), Turkish footballer
- Müslüm Can (born 1975), Turkish footballer
- Müslüm Doğan (born 1959), Turkish politician
- Müslüm Gürses (1953–2013), Turkish folk singer
- Müslüm Yelken (born 1988), Turkish footballer
Surname[edit]
- Ahmed Abou Moslem (born 1981), Egyptian footballer
- Azmi Muslim (born 1986), Malaysian footballer
See also[edit]
- Müslüm, Polatlı, village in the District of Polatlı, Ankara Province, Turkey
- Muğancıq Müslüm, village and municipality in the Sharur Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
- Christian (given name)
- Muslim (disambiguation)
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