Abdur_Rouf

Abd al-Ra'uf

Abd al-Ra'uf

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ʻAbd al-Raʼūf (ALA-LC romanization of Arabic: عبد الرؤوف) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words ʻabd and al-Raʼūf, one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.[1][2] It means 'servant of the Lenient One'.

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-Ra'uf, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Abd ar-Ra'uf. Alternative transliterations include Abdul Raouf and others, all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

People with the name include:

Arts

  • Abdurauf 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 and religion

Sports

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.
  2. [2]
    S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.
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