Muslim (name)

Muslim (Arabic: مُسْلِم muslim), also transliterated as Moslem or Müslüm (Turkish), is an Arabic male given name meaning 'pure, clear, immaculate, clean, taintless, straight, absolute', 'devout, god-fearing, pious, complaisant, obedient, submissive', 'virtuous, chaste, modest, blameless, innocent'.

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PronunciationArabic: [muslim]
Persian: [muslim]
Gendermale
Origin
Word/nameArabic
Meaningmuslim
Other names
Alternative spellingmuslim, muslim

It is also the proper name for the followers of the religion Islam and solely a Muslim name.

The name Muslim is a diminutive of the name Aslam (أَسْلَم aslam), which both names stems from the male noun-name Salaam.

It may refer to:

Given name

Moslem

Muslim

Titular

  • Abu Muslim, full name Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (born 718/19 or 723/27, died 755), Persian general in service of the Abbasid dynasty, who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty
  • Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Nishapuri, d. 875 CE, hadith scholar
  • Muslim ibn Aqil, Islamic figure, son of Aqil ibn Abi Talib and a member of the clan of Bani Hashim, thus, he is a cousin of Hussain ibn Ali
  • Muslim ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Islamic figure, a central figure among the early collectors of sīra—biographies of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad and hadith literature
  • Muslim ibn Uqba, (pre-622–683) was a general of the Umayyad Caliphate during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I and his son and successor Yazid I
  • Muslim ibn Sa'id al-Kilabi, was governor of Khurasan for the Umayyad Caliphate in 723–724.

Given name

Müslüm (Turkish or Turkic spelling)

Surname

See also
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