Fathallah, Fathalla or the Turkish variant Fethullah is a

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of the Arabic given name, فتح الله (''Fatḥ Allāh''), built from the Arabic words ''fath'' and ''

Allah Allah (; ar, الله, translit=Allāh, ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from '' al- ilāh'', which means "the god", an ...

''. It is one of many Arabic theophoric names, meaning "Allah's opening (God's opening)" or "God's conquest".Parati: ''Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy'', 201.

Given name

Fathallah

Fathallah Oualalou Fathallah Oualalou ( ar, فتح الله والعلو) (born 1942 in Rabat) is a Moroccan politician. He was the mayor of Rabat from 2009 to 2015. He was the Minister of Economy and Finance of Morocco between March 1998 and October 2007. He is a ...

, Moroccan politician *

Fathallah Saqqal Fathallah Saqqal ( ar, فتح الله الصقال; 1898 – 27 March 1970) was a Syrian attorney, writer and government minister. He was well known for successfully arguing for Ibrahim Hananu's innocence in the French Mandatory courts in Syria ...

(born 1898), Syrian attorney, writer and government minister *

Fathallah Sijilmassi Fathallah Sijilmassi is a Moroccan politician and economist. He is the current Secretary General of the secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies. On November 2 ...

, Moroccan politician and economist

Fethullah

Fethullah Gülen Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (born 27 April 1941) is a Turkish Islamic scholar, preacher, and a one-time opinion leader, as de facto leader of the Gülen movement. Gülen is designated an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Isla ...

(born 1941), Turkish preacher, former imam, writer and political figure. Founder of the

Gülen movement The Gülen movement ( tr, Gülen hareketi), referred to by its participants as Hizmet ("service") or Cemaat ("community") and since 2016 by the Government of Turkey as FETÖ ("Fethullahist Terrorist Organisation" or, more commonly, "Fethullah T ...

(also known as Hizmet)

Surname

Hesham Fathallah Hesham Fathallah ( ar, هشام فتح الله; born February 11, 1990) is an Egyptian professional footballer who currently plays as a central midfielder for the Egyptian club El Raja SC. Fathallah started his career with Smouha in youth level, ...

(born 1990), Egyptian footballer *

Mahmoud Fathalla Mahmoud Fathalla Abdou Ibrahim El Henawy ( ar, عبدو ابراهيم الحناوي محمود فتح الله; born 13 February 1982) is an Egyptian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. International career Fathalla re ...

, Egyptian footballer

Places

Fathallah barracks The Fathallah barracks were the early headquarters of the Hezbollah organisation, situated in the Basta neighbourhood of West Beirut. On 22 February 1987, following the defeat of the Amal Militia by a combination of Druze and Communist street fight ...

, the early headquarters of the Hezbollah organisation * Kalateh-ye Fathallah, a village in Shirin Su Rural District, Maneh District, Maneh and Samalqan County, North Khorasan Province, Iran

Other

* Fathallah Gomla Market, a supermarket chain in Egypt

References

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