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, 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, Azerbaijani musician
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Alim Qurbanov, 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
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
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Issam Alim, Egyptian Islamist
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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
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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
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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
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Ulama, plural of
'alim
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 ...
, an Islamic legal scholar
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Arabic-language surnames
Arabic masculine given names
Names of God in Islam