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Abed
Abid ( ar, عابد ''‘Ābid''), also ''Abed'', literally meaning ''worshipper'', ''adorer'', ''devout'' may be either a surname or given name. In the Russian language, "" (''Abid''), or its form "" (''Avid''), is an old and uncommonPetrovsky, p. 34 male given name.Superanskaya, p. 29 Included into various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, it was omitted from the official Synodal Menologium at the end of the 19th century.Superanskaya, pp. 23 and 29 Its origins are either Arabic (where it means ''desired'') or Aramaic (where it means ''work'', ''labor'').Superanskaya, pp. 29 and 32 The diminutive of "Avid" is Avidka (). The patronymics derived from "Avid" are "" (''Avidovich''; masculine) and "" (''Avidovna''; feminine). __NOTOC__ As a surname, in the form Al-Abid ( ar, العابد ) and its variants, it is shared by the following people: *Ahmad Izzat Pasha al-Abid (1855–1924), Syrian counselor to Ottoman Sultan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazle Hasan Abed
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed ( bn, ফজলে হাসান আবেদ; 27 April 1936 – 20 December 2019) was the founder of BRAC, one of the world's largest non-governmental organizations. Early life Abed was born on 27 April 1936 in the village of Baniachong, located in what is present-day Habiganj District, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He belonged to a Bengali Muslim family of Zamindars, known as the Hasan family, and was one of eight children of Siddiq Hasan and Syeda Sufia Khatun. Abed's maternal grandfather, Syed Moazzem Uddin Hossain, had served successively as ministers for agriculture and education for Bengal during the last years of British rule. His paternal great-uncle was Sir Syed Shamsul Huda, a member of the Imperial Legislative Council. After passing intermediate from Dhaka College in 1954, Abed left home at the age of 18 to attend University of Glasgow, where, in an effort to break away from tradition and do something radically different, he studied naval architect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri
Mohammed Abed Al Jabri ( ar, محمد عابد الجابري; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010 Rabat) was one of the most known Moroccan and Arab philosophers; he taught philosophy, Arab philosophy, and Islamic thought in Mohammed V University in Rabat from the late 1960s until his retirement. He is considered one of the major philosophers and intellectual figures in the modern and contemporary Arab world. He is known for his academic project "Critique of Arab Reason", published in four volumes between the 1980s and 2000s. He published several influential books on the Arab philosophical tradition.Sonja Hegasy, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, Pioneering Figure in a New Arab Enlightenment" at ''Qantara.de'', 06 May 201/ref> Biography Jabri was born on 27 December 1935 in Figuig, Morocco. he received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Mohammed V in 1967. He also obtained a PhD in philosophy from the same university in 1970. Awards *The Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nawaf Al Abed
Nawaf Shaker Fayrouz Al-Abed ( ar, نواف شاكر فيروز العابد; born 26 January 1990) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Al Shabab and the Saudi Arabia national team. Club career Al-Hilal In 2009, Al-Hilal signed in Al-Abed from their youth academy. On 7 November, Nawaf scored the fastest goal in professional football against Al-Shoulla in two seconds in the Prince Faisal U-21 Cup, but the match was cancelled due to Al-Hilal making 6 player which are more than 21 years old play in the match. On 9 March 2017, Al-Abed scored a third penalty goal against Ittihad and performed a celebration which made Ittihad fans furious. The Saudi Arabia FA banned him for two games, but Al-Hilal appealed and the ban was lifted. International career Al-Abed represented the Saudi Arabia national football team when his country hosted the 2014 Gulf Cup of Nations. His first international goal came in the quarter-final match with Yemen, becoming the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pépé Abed
Youssef Gergi Abed (1911 – December 2006), also known as Pépé Abed, was a Lebanese adventurer, explorer and entrepreneur. He was dubbed as the 'Hugh Hefner of the Middle East', he was frequently linked with a series of beauty icons from around the world. Early life Abed was born in Rmeil but spent much of his time as a child and young adult in Mexico. In the early 1950s, Pepe, who was by that time a jeweler, returned to Lebanon to see family. Career Abed pioneered Lebanon's tourist potential with the Acapulco beach club in Jnah, the Bacchus hotel and nightclub in Beirut, the Admiral's Club in Tyre, the Hacienda in Amshit and his personal refuge, the Byblos Fishing Club. In 1962, he opened the Pépé Abed Museum in Byblos adjacent to the Fishing Club. This museum gathers Greek, Roman and Phoenician antiquities that Pépé Abed pluck from the bed of the sea during decades of diving. The museum is supervised by UNESCO Among the more high-profile visitors to the Byblos Fish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abed Azrie
Abed Azrie or Abed Azrié ( ar, عابد عازرية) (born 1945 in Aleppo) is a French-Syrian singer and composer, who performs Classical music in a variety of languages, including Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish, and other. He describes his works as not belonging to any particular music tradition. In his work he sets ancient and modern Arabic, Sumerian, and other West Asian texts to traditional instruments (such as the ney, kanun, darbuka, violin, flute and lute), and synthesizers. He was born in Aleppo, and after living for a time in Beirut moved to Paris at the age of 22 where he studied Western classical music. While there he translated classical poetry, such as the Sumerian ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', into French. He has stated that he prefers to live in the West, saying in a 2000 interview that he has an "inability to work in the Arab countries, in which the way people live is still conditioned by halal and haram ''Haram'' (; ar, حَرَام, , ) is an Arabic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abed Daoudieh
Abed Khalaf Daoudieh (23 April 1920 – 10 January 2015) was a Jordanian politician. He served as Awqaf and Islamic Affairs minister in 1984. He later served as governor of the governorates of Irbid, Balqa and Ma'an Ma'an ( ar, مَعان, Maʿān) is a city in southern Jordan, southwest of the capital Amman. It serves as the capital of the Ma'an Governorate. Its population was approximately 41,055 in 2015. Civilizations with the name of Ma'an have existe .... References 1920 births 2015 deaths Islamic affairs ministers of Jordan {{Jordan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Ali Bay Al-Abid
Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid ( ar, محمد علي بك العابد, ; 1867 – 22 October 1939) or, as he spelled his own name in French, Mehmed Ali Abed, was appointed the president of the mandatory Syrian Republic (from 11 June 1932 until 21 December 1936) as a nominee of the nationalist Syrian parliament in Damascus after the country received partial recognition of sovereignty from France. France agreed to recognize Syria as a nation under intense nationalist pressure but did not withdraw its troops completely until 1946. Life Background and education Muhammad Ali al-Abid was born in Damascus, then in the Ottoman Empire. His father, Ahmad Izzat al-Abid, the son of Hawlu al-Abid, had initially been brought up in Damascus before pursuing his education in Beirut, Beirut Vilayet. Ahmad Izzat al-Abid, who was fluent in Arabic, French, and Turkish, started working in the administration of Damascus Vilayet and was authorized to found a periodical. Muhammad Ali was educated in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramzi Abid
Ramzi Abid (born March 24, 1980) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player of Tunisian descent, who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Thrashers and the Nashville Predators. Playing career As a youth, Abid played in the 1994 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Longueuil, Quebec. Typically playing as a left winger, Ramzi Abid was selected by the Colorado Avalanche as the first choice in the second round (28th overall) of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft and was redrafted in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, 85th overall, by the Phoenix Coyotes, who on March 11, 2003, traded him to the Pittsburgh Penguins with Dan Focht and Guillaume Lefebvre for Jan Hrdina and François Leroux . In March 2003, he successfully underwent surgery to repair a torn ACL and missed the remainder of the 2002–03 season. He played for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, an affiliate team of the Pittsb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abid Hasan (diplomat)
Abid Hasan Safrani, IFS, born Zain-al-Abdin Hasan, was an officer of the Indian National Army (INA) and later, after 1947, an Indian diplomat. Born to an anti-colonialist family in Hyderabad, Abid Hasan was brought-up in India and later went to Germany to train as an engineer. While he was a student in Germany during World War II that Abid Hasan met Subhas Chandra Bose and decided to join the Indische Legion. Hasan would later serve as Bose's personal secretary and interpreter while Bose was in Germany. Hasan also sailed with Bose in the German U-boat U-180 in 1943 on Bose's voyage to South East Asia. Over the course of the reformation of the INA and its campaigns in the south east Asian theatre, Hasan rose to be a Major in the Azad Hind Fauj. It was also during this that he adopted "''Safrani''", after the holy Hindu colour of Saffron, to his name as a mark of communal harmony. After repatriation to India at the end of the war, Abid Hasan was released following the end of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abid Hamid Mahmud
Lieutenant General Abid Al-Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti ( ; ar, عبد الحميد محمود التكريتي) (21 September 1957 – 7 June 2012) was an Iraqi military officer and Saddam Hussein's personal secretary. Biography Mahmud began his military career as a non-commissioned officer in the Iraqi Army. He rose through the ranks to Lieutenant General, becoming part of Saddam Hussein's personal bodyguard, and finally, his personal secretary. A distant cousin of Saddam Hussein, observers regarded Mahmud as being Hussein's right-hand man. He always maintained constant contact with Hussein and acted as a gatekeeper, controlling access to him. He was trusted, with Saddam's son Qusay Hussein, in overseeing the Iraqi Special Security Organization. He was designated ''ace of diamonds'' in the U.S. administration's most-wanted Iraqi playing cards and fourth on the most-wanted list after Saddam and his sons Uday and Qusay. He was captured in a joint raid by members of B Squadron De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abid Ghoffar Aboe Dja'far
Haji Abid Ghoffar bin Aboe Dja’far or better known as Ebiet G. Ade (born in Wonodadi, Banjarnegara, Central Java, Indonesia on 21 April 1955) is an Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Javanese descent. Early life Ebiet G. Ade was born in Wonodadi, Banjarnegara, Central Java on 21 April 1955. He lived in Yogyakarta since elementary school. During high school, he joined Pelajar Islam Indonesia. In 1971, he associated with artists Yogyakarta, including Emha Ainun Nadjib. He was interested in poetry and wanted to be a poet. However, he was unable to read poems properly. He instead sang his poems after adding melodies. Musical career Albums In 1979, he released his first studio album, ''Camellia I''. His voice is similar to John Denver and Said Effendi. Notable songs from this album were "Lagu untuk Sebuah Nama" ("Song for a Name"), "Pesta" ("Party") and "Camellia". The album was sold more than 2 million copies. In 1995, ''Kupu-Kupu Kertas'' (''Paper Butterflies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abid Briki
Abid Briki (born 20 June 1957; ''Arabic'': عبيد البريكي) is a Tunisian trade unionist and politician. He served as Minister of Civil Service, Governance and the Fight against Corruption in the Chahed Cabinet. Early life Briki was born in Zarzis Zarzis also known as Jarjis ( ar, جرجيس, link=no ') is a coastal commune (municipality) in southeastern Tunisia, former bishopric and Latin Catholic titular see under its ancient name Gergis. To the Phoenicians, Romans and Arabs the port was .... Political career Briki founded the Tunisia Forward party in 2018. He was a candidate in the 2019 presidential election and came in 17th place. Briki announced he would not stand as a candidate in the 2022 parliamentary election. References 1957 births Living people 21st-century Tunisian politicians Government ministers of Tunisia Tunisian political party founders Tunisian trade unionists {{DEFAULTSORT:Briki, Abid People from Zarzis Candidates for President of Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
