Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
male given name and, in modern usage, also a surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Karīm'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It means "servant of the most Generous". It is rendered as ''Abdolkarim'' in Persian, ''Abdulkerim'' in Albania, Bosnia and ''Abdülkerim'' in Turkey.
It may refer to:
Given name
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Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri
'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawazin Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī ( fa, , ar, عبد الكريم بن هوازن بن عبد الملك بن طلحة أبو القاسم القشيري; 986 – 30 December 1072) was an Arab Muslim sch ...
(986–1074), Persian philosopher
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ʻAbd al-Karim al-Jili
Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, or Abdul Karim Jili (Arabic:عبدالكريم جيلى) was a Muslim Sufi saint and Mysticism, mystic who was born in 1365, in what is modern day Iraq, possibly in the neighborhood of Jil in Baghdad. He is known in Muslim ...
(1366–1424), Sufi author who studied in Yemen
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Abdal-Karim Khan Astrakhani
Abdal-Karim Khan ( fa, عبد الکریم; tt-Cyrl, Габделкәри́м хан) was Khan of Astrakhan from 1490 through 1504. For uncertainties and additional information see the second part of List of Astrakhan khans First list with fu ...
, Khan of Astrakhan, 1490–1504
* `Abd al-Karim ibn Muhammad (ruled 1825–1834), Emir of Harar, Ethiopia
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Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha
Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha (1807–1883), also known as Çırpanlı Abdi Pasha or Abdul Kerim Pasha, son of Ahmed Ağa, was an Ottoman military commander, born in Chirpan, Ottoman Bulgaria.
Career
He graduated from the military academy in Const ...
(1807–1883), Ottoman Turkish soldier
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Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi
Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi ( fa, عبدالکریم حائری یزدی; ar, عبد الكريم الحائري اليزدي ; 1859 – 30 January 1937) was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and marja. He was the founder of a ...
(1859–1937), Iranian Twelver Shia Muslim cleric
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Abdul Karim (Ghanaian footballer)
Abdul Karim (born 1 March 2000) is a Ghanaian professional Association football, footballer who plays as midfielder for Ghanaian Premier League side Bechem United F.C., Bechem United.
Career
Karim started his career with Bechem United F.C., Be ...
(born 2000), Ghanaian footballer
* Abdul Karim (the Munshi) (1863–1909), Indian servant to Queen Victoria
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Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad
Abdul Karim (1871 – 1953), known as Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad, was a Bengali littérateur, historian of Bangla literature and collector and interpreter of old Bangla manuscripts.
Early life
Karim was born in Suchakradandi village, Bengal Pr ...
Abd-al Karim
Abd-al Karim (1897–1927) was an Afghan emir who ruled only in the Southern Province, Afghanistan, Southern Province from July 1924 to January 1925.
Early life
Abd-al Karim was born in 1897. He was the youngest son of Mohammad Yaqub Khan, an e ...
(1897–1927), Afghan rebel leader during the
Khost rebellion (1924–1925)
The Khost rebellion, also known as the 1924 Mangal uprising, the Khost revolt or the Mangal Revolt was an uprising against the Westernization and modernizing reforms of Afghanistan’s king, Amanullah Khan. The uprising was launched in Southern Pr ...
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Abdul Karim Disu
Abdul Karim Disu (October 10, 1912 – 2000) was a Nigerian journalist, and the first Nigerian to earn a post-graduate degree in journalism when he attended Columbia University in 1944. Disu originated from Isale-Eko, Lagos and was a close friend ...
(born 1912), Nigerian journalist
* Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914–1963), Iraqi Army officer who seized power in a 1958 coup d'état
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Abdelkarim Ghellab
Abdelkrim Ghallab (December 31, 1919, in Fes – August 14, 2017, in El Jadida) was a Moroccan political journalist, cultural commentator, and novelist. He is an important figure both in the literary and political field (editor of the Istiqlal Par ...
(1919–2017), Moroccan writer
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Abdelkrim Ghallab
Abdelkrim Ghallab (December 31, 1919, in Fes – August 14, 2017, in El Jadida) was a Moroccan political journalist, cultural commentator, and novelist. He is an important figure both in the literary and political field (editor of the Istiqlal Par ...
(ca. 1919–2006), Moroccan writer
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Abdul Karim (soil scientist)
Abdul Karim ( 1922 – December 22, 1973) was a widely published Bangladeshi soil scientist.
Education and career
Karim passed the matriculation examination in 1939 from Homna High School and Higher Secondary School Certificate examination in ...
(1922–1973), Bangladeshi scientist
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Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi
Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi ( ar, عبد الكريم النحلاوي) (born 1926) is a Syrian former military officer and head of the coup which ended the union of Syria and Egypt as the United Arab Republic on 28 September 1961. Al-Nahlawi seized ...
(1926-2016), Syrian military officer and politician
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Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
Sayyid Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili ( fa, سید عبدالکریم موسوی اردبیلی, 28 January 1926 – 23 November 2016) was an Iranian reformist politician and Twelver shi'a marja.
Political career
Ardebili was a supporter of Ayatoll ...
(born 1926), Iranian Twelver cleric
* Abdul Karim (historian) (1928–2007), Bangladeshi historian and academic
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Awatef Abdel Karim
Awatef Abdel Karim ( ar, عواطف عبدالكريم; 8 February 1931 - 24 April 2021) was an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music. Karim was the first Egyptian female composer to formally study music composition. She composed for p ...
(born 1931), Egyptian composer
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Abdelkarim Tabbal
Abdelkarim Tabbal (born 1931 in Chefchaouen, Morocco) is a Moroccan poet.
Tabbal first published his poems in 1952 in the magazine ''Al-Anis''. His poems are distinguishable for their use of rhyme and metaphor, giving a musical character to the ...
(born 1931), Moroccan poet
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Abdel Karim el Kably
Abdel Karim al Kabli ( ar, عبد الكريم الكابلي), sometimes spelled el Kably or al Kably (13 April 1932 – 2 December 2021), was a popular Sudanese singer-songwriter, poet, composer and humanitarian, known for his songs with theme ...
Abdul Karim Tunda
Syed Abdul Karim, alias Tunda (born 1943), was a bomb maker of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, and was accused of masterminding over 40 bombings in India supported by Pakistani terrorists. He was arrested by Indian authorities on 16 August 20 ...
(born 1943), alleged Indian bomb maker
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Abdul Karim Koroma
Abdul Karim Koroma (born 25 September 1944) is a former Sierra Leonean politician. Koroma served in the Sierra Leonean government as Political minister, Minister of Education (1977–1982), Regional Minister of the Northern Province (1982–198 ...
(born 1944), Sierra Leonean politician
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Abdolkarim Soroush
Abdolkarim Soroush ( ; born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; fa, حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian Islamic thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, and a former professor of phil ...
(born 1945), Iranian scientist and philosopher
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Abdelkarim Badjadja
Abdelkrim Badjadja (born March 26, 1945 in Constantine, Algeria) and died on 31 January 2022, in Constantine, is an Algerian archivist and historian. He has contributed greatly to the development of the National Archives of Algeria (Archives Nat ...
(born 1945), Algerian historian
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Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha
Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha (born 28 February 1945 in British India) is the fifth and current Emir of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. In May 2007, he participated a conference in the Berlin Mosque, organized by the German and Dutch section of Ahmadiyy ...
(born 1945), leader of Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement
* Abdul Karim al-Kabariti (born 1949), Jordanian politician
*Abdul Karim, name used by
Bruno Metsu
Bruno Jean Cornil Metsu (28 January 1954 – 15 October 2013) was a French footballer and football manager. During his senior playing career from 1973 to 1987, he played for seven different clubs in his native France. From 1988 until his death, ...
(born 1954), French football manager
* Abdul Karim Brahui (born 1955), Afghan politician
* Abdelkrim Merry (born 1955), Moroccan footballer
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Abdul Karim Luaibi
Abdul Karim Luaibi Bahedh (born 1959) is an Iraqi politician who served as the minister of oil of Iraq between December 2010 and 8 September 2014.
Early life and education
Luaibi was born into a Shiite family in Baghdad in 1959. He holds a bac ...
(born 1959), Iraqi politician
* Abdul Karim Telgi (born 1961), Indian fraudster
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Abdul Karim Irgashive Abdul Karim Irgashive (sometimes spelled Ergashev) is a citizen of Tajikistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
(born 1965), Tajik held in Guantanamo
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Karim el-Mejjati
Karim Thami el-MejjatiLe MondeUn Franco-Marocain suspecte dans les attentats de Casablanca et Madrid March 25, 2004 (October 30, 1967 – April 2005) was a Moroccan-French convicted terrorist who has been claimed to have aided the Riyadh compound ...
(1967–2005), French-Moroccan Islamic activist killed in Saudi Arabia
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Abdul Karim (canoeist)
Abdul Karim (born May 10, 1967) is an Indonesian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1990s. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of t ...
(born 1967), Indonesian canoeist
* Abdelkrim El Hadrioui (born 1972), Moroccan footballer
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Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar
Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (born Sharmon Shah; June 28, 1974), known previously as Karim Abdul-Jabbar, is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). Al-Jabbar played college foot ...
(born 1974), American footballer
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Abdulkareem Elemosho
Abdulkareem Elemosho (born August 10, 1977 in Ilorin) is a Nigerian football (soccer) player currently with Kwara United F.C. of Nigeria.
Trivia
His favourite jersey number is 22 and his boot size is 10, his ambition is to become a coach.
He ...
(born 1977), Nigerian footballer
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Abdulkareem Baba Aminu Abdulkareem Baba Aminu (born Kaduna, 7 July 1977) is a Nigerian journalist, cartoonist, comicbook artist and retailer, painter, writer, poet and culture critic.
Baba Aminu is a commentator on culture. He was one of four judges for KORA Music Awards ...
(born 1977), Nigerian writer and artist
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Abdul Karim Ahmed
Abdul Karim Ahmed (b. 5 February 1980 in Accra) is a Ghanaian Association football, footballer. He currently plays for FK Tønsberg.
Ahmed has formerly played for Real Sporting Club Accra, Kongsvinger IL (1998–2001) and Viking FK, Viking (20 ...
Abdelkrim Mammeri
Abdelkrim Mameri (born January 12, 1981, in Boufarik) is an Algerian football player who is currently playing as a defender for ES Sétif in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
Mameri captained CRB to its sixth Algerian Cup
The Algerian Cup ...
(born 1981), Algerian footballer
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Abdul Karim (Guantanamo detainee 520)
According to the United States US Department of Defense, Department of Defense, it held more than two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006.
They had been captured and classified as enemy combatants in warfare following th ...
(born ca. 1982), Afghan
*Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman Amer, or just Kareem Amer (born ca. 1984), Egyptian blogger
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Abdulkareem Khadr
The Khadr family ( ar, أسرة خضر) is an Egyptian-Canadian family noted for their ties to Osama bin Laden and connections to al-Qaeda.
(born 1989), Egyptian-Canadian injured in Pakistan
* Abdulkarim Al-Ali (born 1991), Qatari footballer
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Abdulkareem Adisa
Abdulkareem Adisa (; 22 August 1948 – 25 February 2005) was a Nigerian major general who was military governor of Oyo State (August 1990 – January 1992) during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
He was convicted for involve ...
(died 2005), Nigerian soldier and politician
* Abdel Karim Obeid (born 1957), Lebanese Shi'a imam
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Abdelkrim Motii
Abdelkrim Motii ( ar, عبد الكريم المطيع; born 25 November 1935 in Ben Ahmed) is the co-founder with Kamal Ibrahim of Chabiba islamia ("Islamic Youth") in 1969.
After being accused of implication in the December 18, 1975, assassinat ...
, Moroccan religious activist
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Abdulkarim Al-Arhabi
Abdulkarim Ismail Al-Arhabi ( ar, عبدالكريم اسماعيل الارحبي) was the Deputy Prime Minister (Yemen), Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (Yemen), Minister of Pla ...
, Yemeni politician
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Abdul Karim al-Anizi
Abdul Karim al-Anizi is an Iraqi politician and a member of the National Assembly of Iraq, representing Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation, the fifth largest party within the ruling United Iraqi Alliance coalition.
He served as Minister of St ...
, Iraqi politician
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Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. A Shia Muslim, al-Mohommedawi led the resistance against Saddam Hussein's government in the southern ma ...
, Iraqi politician
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Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser
) is a Saudi Arabian alleged member and suspected leader of the organization Hezbollah Al-Hijaz, wantedAbdulkareem Baba Aminu Abdulkareem Baba Aminu (born Kaduna, 7 July 1977) is a Nigerian journalist, cartoonist, comicbook artist and retailer, painter, writer, poet and culture critic.
Baba Aminu is a commentator on culture. He was one of four judges for KORA Music Awards ...
, Nigerian journalist
*Abd al-Karim, the name CIA torture victim
Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud
Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud was held, and tortured, in the CIA's archipelago of black sites, where it tortured individuals.
Reuters reports Ben Soud is a Tanzanian who the CIA kidnapped in Somalia in 2003. ''The New York Times'' reports he is a Lib ...
was referred to by in the Senate report on CIA torture
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Abdul Karim Joumaa
Abdul Karim Joumaa ( ar, عبد الكريم جمعة; born 29 March 1954) is a Syrian middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние ...
(born 1954), Syrian Olympic athlete
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Abdul Karim (politician) ʻAbd al-Karīm ( ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الكريم) is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, also a surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Karīm'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give r ...
, Pakistani politician
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Abdul Karim Farhani
Abdul Karim Farhani (Persian language, Persian: عبدالکریم فرحانی) is regarded as an Iranian principlists, principlist member of Assembly of Experts, who is one of Khuzestan province representatives in the 5th period of that. He was ...
Abdul Karim Haghshenas
Abdul Karim Haghshenas ( fa, عبدالکریم حقشناس) (born 1919, Tehran – died on 24 July 2007, Tehran) was a contemporary Muslim jurist and mystic moralist.
In Tehran, he taught courses in ethics and religious affairs. Ayatollah H ...
, Iranian Shia Cleric
Surname
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Shah Abdul Karim
Baul Shah Abdul Karim ( bn, শাহ আবদুল করিম; 15 February 1916 — 12 September 2009) was a Bangladeshi Baul musician. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2001 by the Government of Bangladesh. Some of his notable songs inclu ...
(1916–2009), Bangladeshi folk musician
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Khalil Abdel-Karim
Khalil Abdel-Karim (خليل عبد الكريم Arabic) (born in Aswan City in Upper Egypt) was an Egyptian writer, scholar and lawyer.
Early life
Mr. Khalil Abdul-Karim joined the Muslim Brotherhood in his youth. After attaining his high ...
(1928–2003), Egyptian Islamic activist
* Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim (1936–1998), President of the Comoros
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Yahaya Abdulkarim
Malam Yahaya Abdulkarim (born 21 August 1944) is a Nigerian politician who was governor of Sokoto State, between January 1992 and November 1993, during General Ibrahim Babangida's attempted transition to democracy.
After the return to democracy i ...
(born 1944), Nigerian politician
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Ali Abdul Karim
Ali Abdul Karim ( ar, علي عبد الكريم) (born 1953) is a Syrian diplomat. He is the first Syrian ambassador to Lebanon. Before that he served as the ambassador to Kuwait and as the general manager of the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), an ...
(born 1953), Syrian diplomat
* Rohani Abdul Karim (born 1955), Malaysian politician
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Eedris Abdulkareem
Eedris Turayo Abdulkareem Ajenifuja (born December 24, 1974), popularly known as Eedris Abdulkareem, is a Nigerian hip hop, R n B and Afrobeat artist, songwriter and singer. He was the lead rapper of the defunct Nigerian hip hop boy band The R ...
, Nigerian rapper
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Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem
The Curtis Culwell Center attack was a failed terrorist attack on an exhibit featuring cartoon images of Muhammad at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas on May 3, 2015, which ended in a shootout with police guarding the event, and the d ...