Yakub

Yakub or Yaqub (Arabic: يعقوب‎, romanized: Yaʿqūb, also transliterated in other ways, including Yaqoob, Yaqoub, Yaqub, and Yakup) is a male given name. It is the Arabic version of Jacob and James. The Arabic form Ya'qūb may be direct from the Hebrew or indirect through Syriac.[1] The name was in use in pre-Islamic Arabia[1] and is a common given name in Arab, Turkish, and Muslim societies. It is also used as a surname. It is common in Polish, Czech and Slovak languages, where it is transliterated as Jakub.

Religious figures

  • Yāˈqub ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, prophet of Islam
  • Yakub (Nation of Islam) creator the white race according to that belief system

Other people with this given name

Pre-modern times

  • Yaqub-Har, pharaoh of ancient Egypt
  • Yaqub Beg, Tajik adventurer
  • Yakub Çelebi, Ottoman Sehzade, son of Sultan Murad I
  • Yaqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari
  • Ya'qub ibn Killis, Egyptian vizier
  • Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari, Persian leader
  • Ya'qub al-Mansur, Almohad caliph
  • Yaqūb ibn Tāriq, Persian astronomer and mathematician

Modern times

People with this surname

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See also

  • Yakup, Turkish form of the name

References

  1. Jane Dammen McAuliffe (General Editor) Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an Volume Three : J-O
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