Abdur Rauf

Abdur Rauf (Arabic: عبد الرؤوف‎) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Rauf. The name means "servant of the Lenient One", Ar-Ra'ūf 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. Because the letter r is a sun letter, the letter l of the al- is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written in Arabic with letters corresponding to Abd al-Rauf, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Abd ar-Rauf. Alternative transliterations include Abdul Raouf and others, all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

Arts
  • Abdurrauf Fitrat (1886–1938), Uzbek, cultural modernist active in Soviet Central Asia
  • Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996), Bengali writer
  • Abdul Rauf Anjum (1930–1992), Pakistani writer, poet, philosopher and translator
  • Abdul-Rauf Khalid, Pakistani filmmaker

Politics / Religion
  • Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, or just Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Palestinian leader
  • Abdul Rauf al-Kasm (born 1932), Syrian politician
  • Abdool Raouf Bundhun (born 1937), Vice President of Mauritius
  • Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh (born 1939), Jordanian politician
  • Munshi Abdur Rouf (1943–1971), soldier hero in the Bangladesh Liberation War
  • Feisal Abdul Rauf (born 1948), Arab-American imam and author
  • Rana Abdul Rauf (born 1953), Pakistani politician
  • Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh, or just Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (1960–2010), Palestinian, Hamas military commander
  • Abdul Rauff Hibathul Hakeem, or just Rauff Hakeem (born 1960), Sri Lankan politician
  • Abderraouf Jdey (born 1965), Tunisian-Canadian accused of terrorism
  • Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammed Abu Al Qusin (born 1965), Libyan held in Guantanamo
  • Abdul Rauf Khan (born 1969), Pakistani politician
  • Abdul Rauf (anti-Taliban cleric), imam at the Herati Mosque in Kabul
  • "Mullah" Abdul Rauf Aliza, also known as Abdul Rauf Khadim, a Taliban commander, allegedly tied to ISIS at time of his death
  • Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi -- Speaker for Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga

Sports

Others

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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