Alim (''ʿAlīm'' , also anglicized as ''Aleem'') is one of the
Names of God in Islam
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 ...
, meaning "''All-knowing one''". It is also used as a personal name, as a short form of
Abdul Alim, "''Servant of the All-Knowing''":
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Alim ad-Din Ahmad (1884-1920), Bengali activist and revolutionary
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Alim Ashirov
Olimjon Masaliyevich Ashirov ( uz, Олимжон Масалиевич Аширов, russian: Алим Масалиевич Аширов, ''Alim Ashirov''; 25 January 1955 in Tashkent – 11 August 1979 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine SSR) wa ...
, Soviet footballer
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Aleem Dar (born 1968), Pakistani cricketer
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Alim Karkayev, Russian footballer
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Alim Khan, Khan of Kokand
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Alim Kouliev, Russian-American actor and director
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Alim McNeill (born 2000), American football player
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Alim Öztürk, Turkish footballer
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Alim Qasimov
Alim Hamza oghlu Qasimov ( az, Alim Həmzə oğlu Qasımov; born August 14, 1957) is an Azerbaijani musician and one of the foremost mugham singers in Azerbaijan. He was awarded the International Music Council- UNESCO Music Prize in 1999, one ...
, Azerbaijani musician
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Alim Qurbanov
Alim Qurbanov (born 5 December 1977) is a retired Azerbaijani footballer who spent most of his career playing for club Khazar Lankaran as a midfielder.
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, Azerbaijani footballer
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AFM Alim Chowdhury
Abul Fayez Mohammad Abdul Alim Chowdhury (1928–1971) was an eye specialist in Bangladesh. He was abducted by the Al-Badr militia as part of a plan to kill the renowned intellectuals of the country and was found dead on December 18, 1971, at Rayer ...
, Bangladeshi physician
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Mohammed Alim Khan, last emir of the Manghit dynasty
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Abdul Alim Musa, Muslim American activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam
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Mohammad Alim Qarar, member of the Wolesi Jirga for Laghman Province, Afghanistan
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Issam Alim, Egyptian Islamist
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Juice Aleem, British rapper
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Mariam A. Aleem (1930–2010), Egyptian artist and academic
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Obaidullah Aleem (born 1939), Pakistani Urdu poet
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Ulama
In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...
, plural of
'alim, an Islamic legal scholar
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Arabic-language surnames
Arabic masculine given names
Names of God in Islam