Abdul Alim

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:

  • Abdul Aleem Siddiqi (1892–1954), Bangladeshi Sufi teacher
  • Abdulalim A. Shabazz (born 1927), American mathematician
  • Abdul Alim (folk singer) (1931–1974), Bangladeshi folk musician
  • Abdul Alim Musa (born 1945), American Muslim activist
  • Issam Abdel-Tawab Abdel Alim, full name of Issam Alim, convicted in Egypt for terrorist offences
  • Prof. Abdul Aleem (former Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University)

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.
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