Hafizullah (
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...
/ prs, حفيظ الله) is an Afghan male given name, meaning “remembrance of God“ - a transliteration of the elements ''
Hafiz'' 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 ...
''. The name may refers to:
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Hafizullah Amin
Hafizullah Amin (Pashto/ prs, حفيظ الله امين; 1 August 192927 December 1979) was an Afghan communist revolutionary, politician and teacher. He organized the Saur Revolution of 1978 and co-founded the Democratic Republic of Afghanist ...
(1929–1979), General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
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Hafizullah Shabaz Khail
Dr. Hafizullah Shabaz Khail is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1946, in Paktia, Afghanistan.
According to the Center fo ...
(born 1946), Afghan held in Guantanamo
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Hafizullah Emadi
Hafizullah Emadi is an Afghan author, independent scholar and works as a development consultant for international non-governmental organizations. Most recently, he lives in California and works in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Biography
He was born in the ...
(born 1952), Afghan-American writer
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Hafizullah (detainee) (born 1974), Afghan held in Guantanamo
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Hafizullah Qadami
Hafizullah Qadami Ke madaresh zandst ( fa, حفیظ الله قدمی; born 20 February 1985) is an Afghan football player. He plays as a forward and has played football with Maiwand Kabul FC since 2003. Qadami is considered one of Afghanistan ...
(born 1985), Afghan footballer
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Hafizullah Khaled
Hafizullah Khaled ( fa, حفیظ الله خالد) is an Afghan Austrian humanitarian, peace activist, writer and founder of the Help Afghan School Children Organization (HASCO) based in Vienna (Austria).
HASCO is a not-for-profit, non-politica ...
, Afghan-Austrian peace activist and writer
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Arabic masculine given names