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 ʻAbd al-ʻAlīm (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد العليم) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-ʻAlīm'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an Names of God in Islam ( ar, أَسْمَاءُ ...

, "''Servant of the All-Knowing''":

Given name

* Alim ad-Din Ahmad (1884-1920), Bengali activist and revolutionary * Alim Ashirov, Soviet footballer *

Aleem Dar Aleem Dar PP ( Punjabi, ur, ; born 6 June 1968) is a Pakistani cricket umpire and former cricketer. He is a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires. He won the David Shepherd Trophy three years in a row from 2009 to 2011, after being nomin ...

(born 1968), Pakistani cricketer *

Alim Karkayev Alim Abdul-Kerimovich Karkayev (russian: Алим Абдул-Керимович Каркаев; born 28 January 1985) is a Russian former professional football player. Club career He made his Russian Football National League debut for FC Kuba ...

, Russian footballer * Alim Khan, Khan of Kokand *

Alim Kouliev Alim Kaisynovich Kouliev (born June 24, 1959) is a Soviet-born American actor, theatre director, and screenwriter of Balkar origin. Kouliev was born in Nalchik — a small city in USSR. His father was the Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev and his mothe ...

, Russian-American actor and director *

Alim McNeill Alim McNeill (born May 11, 2000) is an American football defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at NC State, and was drafted by the Lions in the third round of the 2021 NFL Draf ...

(born 2000), American football player *

Alim Öztürk Alim Öztürk (born 17 November 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Samsunspor. Born in the Netherlands, he is a youth international for Turkey. Öztürk has previously played for Dutch club SC Cambuur, Trabzonspor ...

, Turkish footballer *

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 of ...

, Azerbaijani musician *

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 A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play ...

, Azerbaijani footballer

Middle name

* AFM Alim Chowdhury, Bangladeshi physician *

Mohammed Alim Khan Emir Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan ( uz, Said Mir Muhammad Olimxon, 3 January 1880 – 28 April 1944) was the last emir of the Uzbek Manghit dynasty, rulers of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the ...

, last emir of the Manghit dynasty *

Abdul Alim Musa Imam Abdul Alim Musa (born 1945 as Clarence Reams) was a Muslim American activist. Musa is the founder and director of As-Sabiqun, and the Islamic Institute of Counter-Zionist American Psychological Warfare which has been identified as a hate g ...

, Muslim American activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam *

Mohammad Alim Qarar Engineer Mohammad Alim Qarar is a member of the Wolesi Jirga for Laghman Province, Afghanistan. He is an ethnic Pashai. He was a former commander with the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin The Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin ( fa, حزب اسلامی گلبدی ...

, member of the Wolesi Jirga for Laghman Province, Afghanistan

Surname

Issam Alim Issam Abdel-Tawab Abdel Alim (عصام عبدالتواب عبدالعليم) was a member of al-Jihad convicted in Egypt's Returnees from Albania case. He was the only member extradited from Bulgaria, following his capture by the CIA in Sofia in ...

, Egyptian Islamist *

Juice Aleem Juice Aleem is a rapper born in Birmingham, in ceremonial counties West Midlands, England. Biography After putting years of energy into the Birmingham hip hop scene, Juice's "Ghetto Grammer" freestyle rap sessions started featuring such other f ...

, British rapper *

Mariam A. Aleem Mariam A. Aleem (28 December 1930 – 26 April 2010) was an Egyptian artist and art professor specializing in printed design. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts Cairo in 1954 and her Master of Fine Arts in graphic pr ...

(1930–2010), Egyptian artist and academic *

Obaidullah Aleem Obaidullah Aleem ( ur, , 12 June 1939 – 18 May 2003) was a Pakistani poet of Urdu language. Life Aleem was born in 1939 in Bhopal, India. His father moved to Sialkot following Partition. Aleem was from a Kashmiri Butt family and was an A ...

(born 1939), Pakistani Urdu poet

Other uses

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Alim Arabic-language surnames Arabic masculine given names Names of God in Islam