ʻAbd al-Wāḥid (
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of ar, عبد الواحد) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words ''
ʻabd'' and ''al-Wāḥid'', 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 One".
It may refer to:
Political people
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Shaykh Abdul Wahid, 17th-century Mughal general
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Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud
Abd al-Wahid bin Mas'ud bin Mohammed Anun ( ar, عبد الواحد بن مسعود بن محمد عنون) was principal secretary to the Moroccan ruler Mulay Ahmad al-Mansur, and ambassador to the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1600, ...
, 17th-century Moroccan ambassador
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Abdul-Wahid I, Almohad Caliph
Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahid 'al-Makhlu' (also known as Abd al-Wahid I, ar, أبو محمد عبد الواحد بن يوسف ''Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Yūsuf'') was the Almohad Caliph for less than a year in 1224.
Life
Abd al-Wahi ...
(died 1224), caliph of Morocco
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Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar Abdulwahid Ahmad Hassan AlAbduljabbar ( ar, عبدالواحد احمد حسن العبدالجبار) was a Saudi political activist. Born in 1935 in Qatif, died June 15, 1970, of torture in the garden of the prison in Jeddah by Saudi authoritie ...
(1935 – 1970), Saudi political activist
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Abdul Waheed Kakar
General Abdul Waheed Kakar ( ur, ; born 23 March 1937), was a senior officer of the Pakistan Army who served as the 5th Chief of Army Staff, appointed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 January 1993 upon death of his predecessor Asif Nawaz ...
(born 1937), chief of Pakistan army
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Abdulwahid Bidin (1925 — 1999), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
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Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
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(born 1954), Iranian politician
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Abdul Wahid al Nur
Abdul Wahid Mohamed al Nur (also Abdel Wahid el-Nur or Abdulwahid Mohammed Nour; ar, عبد الواحد محمد نور, ''ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Muḥammad Nūr''; born in 1968) is the leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (al Nur) faction ...
(born 1968), Sudanese rebel leader
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Abdul Wahid Baba Jan, Afghan soldier and politician
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Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut
Haji Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut (born 29 September 1957) was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Kuala Terengganu constituency in Terengganu (2009 to 2013) the Member of the State Assembly of Terengganu for the seat of Wakaf Mempelam ...
(born 1957), Malaysian politician
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Abdelwahid Aboud Mackaye
Abdelwahid Aboud Mackaye (born 1953) is a Chadian insurgent leader involved in the war to topple the Chadian President Idriss Déby. Originally a fighter in the Democratic Revolutionary Council (CDR) militia during the first Chadian Civil War, un ...
(born 1953), Chadian insurgent leader
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Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahid ibn Abi Hafs
Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahid ibn Abi Hafs al-Hintati (, d. 25 February 1221), or simply Abd al-Wahid, was the Almohad governor of Ifriqya from 1207 to 1221 and the father of the first Hafsid sultan Abu Zakariya Yahya.
Life
Abd al-Wahid belonged to ...
, (d. 1221) Almohad governor of Ifriqiya
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Raes Abdul Wahed
Raes Abdul Wahed ''(also transliterated as Abdul Rais Wahid and Abdul Wahid)'' is an Afghanistan, Afghan warlord.
According to an article in the May 23, 2002 issue of Time (magazine), ''Time'' magazine, Wahed was a Taliban commander who surren ...
, Afghan Taliban commander
Athletes
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Abdul Wahid Durrani
Abdul Wahid Khan Durrani (Urdu, Pashto: ; 30 June 1917 – 24 February 2008), was a Pakistani international footballer and manager. He was the second captain in the history of the Pakistan national football team after the goalkeeper Osman Jan.
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(1917 – 2008), Pakistani footballer
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Abdul-Wahid Aziz (1931 – 1982), Iraqi weightlifter
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Tariq Abdul-Wahad
Tariq Abdul-Wahad (born Olivier Michael Saint-Jean; November 3, 1974) is a French basketball coach and former player. As Olivier Saint-Jean, he played college basketball at Michigan and San Jose State. In 1997, the Sacramento Kings selected Sain ...
(born 1974), French basketball player
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Abdel-Wahed El-Sayed (born 1977), Egyptian footballer
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Abdul-Wahed Mohammed
Abdul-Wahed Mohammed (born 30 July 1977) is a Libyan futsal player.
Mohammed played for the Libya national futsal team at the 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
Honors
National Team
* African Futsal Championship:
** 2008
* Arab Futsal Championshi ...
(born 1977), Libyan futsal player
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Mohamed Abdel Wahed
Mohamed Abdel Wahed ( ar, محمد عبد الواحد) (born 19 January 1981) is a retired Egyptian footballer. He was a member of Egypt's U-21 national team, which got the bronze medal in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship held in Argenti ...
(born 1981), Egyptian footballer
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Abdelouahad Abdessamad
Abdelouahad Abdessamad (Arabic: عبد الواحد عبد الصمد; born 24 February 1982) is a Moroccan football defender. He currently plays for Raja Casablanca
Raja Club Athletic ( ar, نادي الرجاء الرياضي, Nādī ar-Ra ...
(born 1982), Moroccan footballer
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Hussein Abdul-Wahed Hussein Abdul-Wahid is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Hussein Abdul-Wahid Waham (born 1985), Iraqi footballer
* Hussein Abdul-Wahid Khalaf (born 1993), Iraqi footballer
See also
*Abdul Wahid ʻAbd al-Wāḥid (ALA-LC romani ...
(born 1986), Iraqi footballer
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Abdul Waheed (field hockey)
Abdul Waheed (30 November 1936 – 21 February 2022), also known as Abdul Waheed Khan, born in Rajpur, Madhya Pradesh, was a Pakistani field hockey player who was a member of the country's gold medal winning 1960 Olympic Hockey team.
He played ...
, player in Pakistan's 1960 Olympic hockey team
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Abdelouahed Idrissi Chorfi
Abdelouahed Idrissi Chorfi (born 1 January 1969) is a Moroccan judoka. He competed at the 1996 Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centen ...
(born 1969), Moroccan judoka
Others
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Abdul Waahid Bin Zaid
'Abd al-Wahid ibn Zaid (Urdu عبد الواحد بن زید) also known as Abdul Wahid bin Zayd, has been quoted in ''Fazail-e-Sadaqat'' as great early sufi shiekh. He is also reported to have received education from Imam Abu Hanifah, before ...
(died 793), Iraqi Sufi saint
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Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi
ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī al-Tamīmī al-Marrākushī (; born 7 July 1185 in Marrakech, died 1250) was a Moroccan historian who lived during the Almohad period.
Abdelwahid was born in Marrakech in 1185 during the reign of Yaqub al-Mansur, in ...
(born 1185), Moroccan historian
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Abdul Wahid Khan
Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan (1871–1949) was an Indian subcontinental singer from the Kirana gharana. He died in 1949 in Saharanpur, India. (died 1949), Indian classical singer
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Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil
Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil ( ar, عبد الواحد الوكيل, born 7 August 1943) is an Egyptian architect who designed over 15 mosques in Saudi Arabia and is considered by many as the foremost contemporary authority in Islamic architecture. For ...
(born 1943), Egyptian architect
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Abdul Waheed Khan (UNESCO official) (born 1947), Indian IT expert
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Abdelwahid Bouabdallah (born 1953), Algerian businessman
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Abdul Wahid Pedersen (born 1954), Danish imam
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Abdul Wahid (Bagram detainee)
Abdul Wahid was a citizen of Afghanistan whose autopsy was held in the United States's Bagram Theater detention facility.
He was beaten to death on November 6, 2003.
Army pathologist Colonel Kathleen Ingwersen concluded his death was a homici ...
(died 2003), Afghan beaten to death in US custody
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Abdul Wahid Nazari (born 1953), Afghan film director
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Abdul Wahid Aresar
Abdul Wahid Arisar ( sd, عبد الواحد آريسر) (11 October 1949 – 3 May 2015) was a notable scholar, writer, researcher and Sindhi politician who was one of the heads of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), a political party in Si ...
(1949 – 2015), Sindhi writer
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Arabic masculine given names