Imad al-Din or Imad ad-Din ( ar, عماد الدين, ʿImād al-Dīn), also Imad ud-din, is a male Muslim given name meaning "pillar of the religion, faith", composed from the nouns ‘''imad'', meaning pillar, and ''
al-Din'', of the faith.
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This
theophoric name is formed from the Arabic male given name
Imad.
Other written variants are Imadaddin, Imaduddin, Emadeddin, etc.
Notable bearers of the name include:
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Imad al-Din Zengi (c. 1085–1146), emir of Mosul and Aleppo
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Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125–1201), Persian poet and historian
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Imadaddin Nasimi (1369–1417), Azerbaijani Ḥurūfī poet
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Idris Imad al-Din (1392–1468), head of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community and historian
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Imad al-Din Mahmud ibn Mas‘ud Shirazi
Imad (also transliterated as Emad, Imed and Aimad ar, عماد) is an Arabic masculine given name and surname and means "support" or "pillar".
Given name
* Imād ad-Dīn Muhammad bin Qasim, Umayyad Caliphate general
* Imad Abbas, Palestinian m ...
(mid 16th century), Persian physician
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Muhammad Imaduddin I
Sultan Mohammed Imaduddin I (1580–1648) was the Sultan of Maldives from 11 December 1628 to 1648. He was the son of Umar Maafai Kilage and Mariyam Kabaidhi Kilage. After ruling for 20 years, the sultan died at the age of 68 and was buried in ...
(1580–1648), sultan of the Maldives
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Muhammad Imaaduddeen IV Sultan Muhammad Imaaduddeen IV was the Sultan of the Maldives from 18 June 1835 to 15 November 1883. He ruled for 48 years, 4 months, and 28 days, making his reign the longest ever in the Maldives. The first map of the Maldives was created during h ...
(died 1882), sultan of the Maldives
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Muhammad Imaaduddeen V
Sultan Muhammad Imaaduddeen V (1884–1920), son of Ibrahim Nooraddeen and Bodugaluge Didi of Machchangoalhi Ganduvaru, and also younger half-brother of Muhammad Shamsuddeen III, was the sultan of the Maldives from 1892 to 1893 for five months. ...
(died 1893), sultan of the Maldives
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Imad ud-din Lahiz
Imad ud-din Lahiz (1830–1900) was an Islamic writer, preacher and Quranic translator, who converted to (Masihiyt) Christianity.
Background
Imad ud-din Lahiz was among the fourth generation of Islamic scholars in the family. His father, Mohamm ...
(died 1900), Islamic writer who converted to Christianity
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Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI (1868–1932), sultan of the Maldives
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Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad (born 1948), American Muslim scholar
*Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, known as
Dodi Fayed (1955–1997), Egyptian film producer
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Emadeddin Baghi, Iranian journalist and political activist
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Ja'far us Sadiq Imaduddin
Ja'far us Sadiq Imaduddin ( ar, جـعفـرُ ٱلصَّـادِق عِمـادُ ٱلدِّيـن) or Jafar us Sadiq Mufaddal Saifuddin, is the eldest son of Mufaddal Saifuddin, the current incumbent of the office of the 53rd Dawoodi Bohra Da' ...
, Indian Scholar
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Imaduddin (ICMI)
Imaduddin Abdulrahim (1931 – 2008) was an Indonesian religious and political activist and the spiritual head of the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals (ICMI). During 1960s and 1970s he served for 17 years as an electrical engineer by ...
, Indonesian religious and political activist
*Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, also known as
Abu Dahdah, Syrian-born Spaniard sentenced to prison in Spain for his part in the September 11, 2001 attacks
References
Arabic masculine given names