ʻAbd al-Sattār ( ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الستّار) is an Arabic Muslim male given name, built on the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Sattār''. The name means "servant of the Veiler (of sins)". Because the letter s is a

sun letter In Arabic and Maltese, the consonants are divided into two groups, called the sun letters or solar letters ( ar, حروف شمسية ', mt, konsonanti xemxin) and moon letters or lunar letters (Arabic: ', mt, konsonanti qamrin), based on whe ...

, the letter l of the ''al-'' is usually assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written with letters corresponding to ''Abd al-Sattar'', the usual pronunciation corresponds to ''Abd as-Sattar''. Alternative transliterations include ''Abdus Sattar'', ''Abd al-Sattar'' and others, all subject to variant spacing and hyphenation. It may refer to: * Abd al-Sattar Qasim * Abdus Sattar (president) (1906–1985), Bangladeshi jurist and politician who served as president of Bangladesh, November 1981 to March 1982 *

Maulana Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi Abdus Sattar Khan Niazi (مولاناعبدالستارخان نیازی) (1 October 1915 – 2 May 2001) was a Pakistani religious and political leader. Early life He was born on 1 October 1915 at Isakhel in Mianwali District, Punjab, Br ...

(1915–2001), Pakistani religious and political leader *

Abdus Sattar (Murshidabad politician) Abdus Sattar (5 June 1925 – 28 February 1991) was an Indian National Congress politician, seven-time MLA and cabinet minister in the state. Early life Abdus Sattar, son of Kalimuddin Biswas, was born at Lalgola in Murshidabad district on 5 Ju ...

(1925-1991), Indian National Congress politician * Mohammad Abdus Sattar (1925–2011), Indian footballer * Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928-2016), Pakistani philanthropist *

Abdul Sattar Afghani Abdul Sattar Afghani ( ur, عبدالستار افغانی; 6 July 1930 – 4 November 2006) was a politician from Karachi, Pakistan. He was twice elected Mayor of Karachi and once an elected member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (MN ...

(1930–2006), Pakistani politician * Abdul Satar Sirat (born 1937), Afghan politician *

Abdus Suttar Khan Abdus Suttar Khan (c. 1941 – 31 January 2008) was a Bangladeshi scientist. He researched on aerospace for four decades with NASA, United Technologies Corporation, United Technology, and Alstom, a French power generation company. Khan invented ...

(1941–2008), Bangladeshi aerospace researcher * Abdul Sattar Jawad (born 1943), Iraqi-American professor of English *

Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad Ibrahim Ahmad Abd Al-Sattar Muhammad Al-Tikriti (9 September 1950 – 28 October 2010) was the chief of staff of the Iraqi armed forces under the rule of Saddam Hussein from 1999 until 2003. He was taken into custody on 15 May 2003. He was ...

(1956–2010), chief of staff of the Iraqi armed forces before the 2003 invasion * Abdul Sattar Abu Risha (1972–2007), Iraqi Sunni tribal leader and ally of the U.S. *

Abdel Sattar Sabry Abdel Sattar Sabry Abdel Majid Mahmoud ( ar, عبد الستار صبري عبد المجيد محمود; born 19 June 1974), known as Sabry, is an Egyptian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Club career A ski ...

(born 1974), Egyptian footballer * Abdul Sattar (Guantanamo detainee 10) (born 1981), Pakistani prisoner in Guantanamo *Abdul Sattar Bhagat (active 1970), Pakistani cricketer *

Abdul Sattar (diplomat) Abdul Sattar (1931 – 23 June 2019) ( ; ur, عبد الستار), was a Pakistani political scientist, career foreign service officer, diplomat, author of foreign policy, and nuclear strategist. Prior to being appointed Foreign minister o ...

(1931-2019), Foreign Minister of Pakistan 1993 and 1999–2002 * Abdus Sattar (West Bengal politician), Communist Party of India (Marxist) 21st century politician *

Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib ( ar, زهير طالب عبد الستار النقيب; 1948 – 15 June 2020) was the last director of military intelligence in Iraq before the 2003 invasion US-led of Iraq. Biography He surrendered hims ...

, director of military intelligence in Iraq before the 2003 invasion * Abdel-Sattar Abdel-Jabbar, Iraqi political activist in 2004 *

Abdussattar Shaikh Abdussattar Shaikh (ar عبد الستار شيخ) was an asset of the FBI’s San Diego Field Office from May 14, 1994, to July 2003. He was called "The FBI's Best Chance to Uncover September 11th Before it Happened" by the Joint Inquiry into I ...

, FBI informant 1994–2003 *

Abdul-Satar al-Bahadli Sheikh Abdul-Satar al-Bahadli is a senior Iraqi Shia cleric and confederate of Muqtada al-Sadr. On 7 May 2004, responding to pictures of the abuse of prisoners by American integrators in Abu Gharib prison speaking in the city of Basra, he made a ...

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fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

2004), Iraqi Shi'a cleric *

Abdul Sattar Murad Abdul Sattar Murad is a politician in Afghanistan. Murad was born on March 16, 1958, in Parwan province. He completed his bachelor's degree in political science in June 1976 at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. In 1979, he joined the Militar ...

(b. 1958), Afghan politician, governor of Kapisa province 2004–07 *

Abdul Sattar Khan (politician) Abdul Sattar Khan (born 5 June 1975) is Pakistani politician hailing from Kohistan District. He served as member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from 2013 to 2018. He belongs to the Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim Lea ...

(b. 1975), a Pakistani politician *

Abdus Sattar (politician) Abdus Sattar is a Bangladeshi politician and former member of parliament. He was elected from Tangail-1 (Madhupur and Dhanbari) constituency as a Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal candidate in the first Bangladeshi parliamentary election held on 7 March 19 ...

, a Bangladeshi politician and former member of parliament from

Tangail-1 Tangail-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2001 by Abdur Razzak of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhanbari Dhanbari ( bn, ধনবাড়ী) is a ...

. *

Abdul Sattar Abdul Nabi Abdul Sattar Abdul Nabi is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was briefly a minister in 2014 in the Congress government in Maharashtra. In 2019 he left Congress and joined Shiv Sena. He is a three term Member of the Maharashtra Legislat ...

, a

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

politician representing Sillod constituency

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