Abdul Wahhab ( ar, عبد الوهاب, translit=ʻAbd al-Wahhāb) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and '' al-Wahhāb'', one of the

names of God in the Qur'an Names of God in Islam ( ar, أَسْمَاءُ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ , "''Allah's Beautiful Names''") are names attributed to God in Islam by Muslims. While some names are only in the Quran, and others are only in the hadith, th ...

, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It means "servant of the all-giver". The letter ''a'' of the ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by ''u''. The last element may appear as ''Wahab'', ''Wahhab'', ''Vehhab'', ''Ouahab'', and others with the whole name subject to variable spacing and hyphenation. It may refer to: * Abd al-Wahhab ibn Rustam (784-832), the founder of the Wahhabism

Ibadi The Ibadi movement or Ibadism ( ar, الإباضية, al-Ibāḍiyyah) is a school of Islam. The followers of Ibadism are known as the Ibadis. Ibadism emerged around 60 years after the Islamic prophet Muhammad's death in 632 AD as a moderate sc ...

Movement, in

Tiaret Tiaret ( ar, تاهرت / تيارت; Berber: Tahert or Tihert, i.e. "Lioness") is a major city in northwestern Algeria that gives its name to the wider farming region of Tiaret Province. Both the town and region lie south-west of the capital o ...

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Qadi 'Abd al-Wahhab Qadi 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali ibn Naṣr ibn Ahmad ibn Hussein ibn Harun ibn Malik ibn Tawk al-Taghlibi () (973 – 1035CE) (362 AH – 422 AH ), also known as Qadi Abdul Wahhab and Qadi 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Maliki was an important Iraqi jurist in ...

(973–1031), Iraqi Maliki scholar and jurist *ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad aš-Šaʿrānī, known as just

Shaʿrānī Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name ar, عبد الوهاب ابن أحمد الشعرانى ') was an Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism, eponymously known as '. Th ...

(1492–1565), Egyptian Sufi teacher * Mohammed ibn abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani (died 1707), Moroccan diplomat and travel writer *

Muhammad ibn Abd Al-Wahhab ; "The Book of Monotheism") , influences = , influenced = , children = , module = , title = Imam, Shaykh , movement = Muwahhidun (Wahhabi) , native_name = محمد بن ...

(1702-1792), Arab Hanbali scholar *Abdul Wahab, known as

Sachal Sarmast Sachal Sarmast or Sacho Sarmast ( sd, سچو سرمست (1739–1827), born Abdul Wahab Farooqi ( ur, عبد الوہاب فاروقی) was a prominent and a legendary Sindhi Sufi poet from Sindh (Mehran) in modern-day Pakistan. Biography Sac ...

(1739–1829), Sindhi Sufi poet * Abdulvehhab Ilhamija (1773–1821), Bosnian Dervish and writer *

Kheireddine Abdul Wahab Kheireddine Abdul Wahab (1878 – January 1944) was a Lebanese businessman and mayor of the city of El Mina, who played a pivotal role in the establishment of Lebanon's second largest harbor, at Tripoli, as well as founding the Piloting & Harbo ...

(1878–1944), Lebanese businessman *

Bachir Abdelouahab Bachir Ben Mohamed Abdelouahab ( ar, بشير بن محمد عبد الوهاب, December 2, 1897, Miliana - 1978, Algiers) was an Algerian politician and medical doctor. He practiced medicine in Blida, Zaouia street since March 1924, where he w ...

(1897–1978), Algerian politician and medical doctor * Abdul Wahab Khan Tarzi (born 1903), Afghan civil servant *

Mohammed Abdel Wahab ''Mohamed Abdel Wahab'' ( ar, محمد عبد الوهاب), also transliteration, transliterated ''Mohamed Abd El-Wahhab'' (March 13, 1902 – May 4, 1991), was a prominent 20th-century Egyptian singer, actor, and composer. He is best known fo ...

(1902 –1991), Egyptian singer and composer *

Abdul-Wahab Mirjan Abdul-Wahab Mirjan (1909 – March 15, 1964) ( ar, عبد الوهاب مرجان) served as Prime Minister of Iraq from 1957 to 1958 at the time of that country's short-lived union with Jordan, which was formalized on February 14, 1958. A ...

(1909–1964), Iraqi politician *

Khaled Abdul-Wahab Khaled Abdul-Wahab (1 March 1911 – 4 September 1997) was a Tunisian Muslim Arab man who saved several Jewish families from Nazi persecution, in Vichy-controlled Tunisia during the Holocaust. He has been called the 'Tunisian Oskar Schindler, ...

(1911–1997), Tunisian who helped Jews in World War II *Fatin Abdel Wahab (1913–1972), Egyptian film director *Abdolvahaab Shahidi (born 1914), Iranian singer and barbat player *Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad (1915-2002), Syrian politician *Afif Abdul Wahab (1915–2003), Lebanese doctor *Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf (1916-1959), Iraqi revolutionary *Abdul Wahab (journalist) (1916 – 1994), Bangladeshi journalist *Muhammad Abdulwahhab (born 1923), Indian Muslim religious teacher *Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati (1926–1999), Iraqi poet *Abdel Wahab Elmessiri (1938–2008), Egyptian political philosopher *Abdul Wahab Adam (1938-2014), Ghanaian Muslim Scholar and Ameer of the Ahmadiyya movement, Ghana *Abdelwahab Abdallah (born 1940), Tunisian politician *Abdul Wahab Siddiqi (1942–1994), Pakistani religious scholar and Sufi Master *Abdulwahab Darawshe (born 1943), Arab-Israeli politician *Tuan Haji Anuar bin Haji Abd. Wahab (1945–2009), Malaysian silat expert *Abdelwahab Meddeb (born 1946), Tunisian-French poet and essayist *Mounes Abdul Wahab (born 1947), Lebanese blind civil rights activist, author and pioneer of disabled rights movement *AbdulWahab Raweh (born 1952), Yemeni politician *Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (born 1962), Egyptian classical composer *Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail (born 1976), Iraqi footballer *Musa Abed Al Wahab (born 1977), Saudi held in Guantanamo *AbdulWahab al-Awdi (born 1978), Yemeni poet *Mohamed Abdelwahab (1983–2006), Egyptian footballer *Abdul Wahab Khan (politician), speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan *Abdul Wahab Peevee (P. V. Abdul Wahab), Indian politician *Zamzani Abdul Wahab (Chef Zam), Malaysian chef *Abdul Wahab Dar, Pakistani cricketer *Abdul Wahab (educationist), Pakistani educationist As a female name, it may refer to: *Sherine Abdel Wahhab (born 1980), Egyptian singer

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