Nu'man

Nu'man (Arabic: نعمان‎) or Nu'maan is an Arabic given name dating to pre-Islamic times, meaning blood or red. Not to be confused with the close proximity of a similar Arabic word meaning happiness. It is also used with the definite article, النعمان, transliterated an-Nu'man or al-Nu'man. It may refer to:

• seven of the Ghassanid Kings (327-ca. 600)
• Al-Nu'man I ibn Imru' al-Qays (reigned ca. 390–418), king of the Lakhmids
• Al-Nu'man II ibn al-Aswad (reigned 497–503), king of the Lakhmids
• Al-Nu'man VI ibn al-Mundhir (active 581-583), king of the Ghassanids
• Al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir (active (582–ca. 602), king of the Lakhmids
• Nouman ibn Muqarrin (died 641), one of the companions of Muhammad
• Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zuṭā ibn Marzubān, known as Abū Ḥanīfa (699—767), founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence
• Qadi al-Nu'man (died 974), Isma'ili jurist, official historian of the Fatimid caliphs
• Köprülü Numan Pasha (died 1719), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• Noman Çelebicihan (1885-1918), Crimean Tatar politician
• Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1909-1996), twice Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
• Yasin Said Numan, Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1986-1990
• Numan Gumaa (born 1937) Egyptian lawyer and politician
• Mohamed Noman Galal (born 1943), Egyptian diplomat and author
• Numan Kurtulmuş (born 1959), Turkish politician
• Noman Mubashir (born 1974), Pakistani-Norwegian journalist
• Noman Bashir, Pakistani admiral
• Nomanul Haq, Pakistani-American historian
• Marwan Abdullah Abdulwahab Noman, Yemeni diplomat
• No'man Ashour, Egyptian poet and playwright
• Noman Benotman, Libyan politician
• Noman Masood, Pakistani television actor
• Noman Ijaz, Pakistani television and film actor
• Nouman Ali Khan, Pakistani-American Muslim speaker

See also

• Nuaman, name of a Palestinian hamlet outside Jerusalem.
• Numan (disambiguation), another spelling of the name
• Ma`arrat an-Nu`man, city in Syria
• Naaman (disambiguation)