Muslim (name)

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| meaning = muslim

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Muslim (Arabic: {{Lang|ar|مُسْلِم}} {{Lang|ar-latn|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'.

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 ({{Lang|ar|أَسْلَم}} {{Lang|ar-latn|aslam}}), which both names stems from the male noun-name Salaam.

It may refer to:

Given name

=Historical figures=

  • 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
  • Muslim ibn Quraysh, d. 1085 CE, Uqaylid king (emir) of Mosul and Aleppo during 1061–1085. Considered the last strong Arab ruler of Upper Mesopotamia before the takeover of Turkic nomads

=Contemporary figures=

Surname

See also

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Category:Arabic-language masculine given names

Category:Iranian masculine given names

Category:Turkish masculine given names

Category:Masculine given names