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 Ad-Din ( ar, الْدِّين ' '(of) the Religion/Faith/Creed'), a suffix component of some Arabic names, meaning 'the religion/faith/creed', e.g. Saif al-Din ( ar, سيف الدّين, Sayf al-Dīn, Sword of the Faith). Varieties are also used in ...

'', of the faith. {{cite book, title=A Dictionary of Muslim Names, author= S. A. Rahman, publisher=Goodword Books, location=New Delhi, year=2001 This

theophoric name A theophoric name (from Greek: , ''theophoros'', literally "bearing or carrying a god") embeds the word equivalent of 'god' or God's name in a person's name, reflecting something about the character of the person so named in relation to that deit ...

is formed from the Arabic male given name Imad. Other written variants are Imadaddin, Imaduddin, Emadeddin, etc. Notable bearers of the name include: *

Imad al-Din Zengi Imad al-Din Zengi ( ar, عماد الدین زنكي; – 14 September 1146), also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkmen atabeg, who ruled Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa. He was the namesake of the Zengid dy ...

(c. 1085–1146), emir of Mosul and Aleppo *

Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani Muhammad ibn Hamed Isfahani (1125 – 20 June 1201) ( fa, محمد ابن حامد اصفهانی), more popularly known as Imad ad-din al-Isfahani ( fa, عماد الدین اصفهانی) ( ar, عماد الدين الأصفهاني), was ...

(1125–1201), Persian poet and historian *

Imadaddin Nasimi Alī Imādud-Dīn Nasīmī ( az, Seyid Əli İmadəddin Nəsimi سئید علی عمادالدّین نسیمی, fa, عمادالدین نسیمی), often known as Nesimi, was a 14th-century Azerbaijani Ḥurūfī poet. Known mostly by his ...

(1369–1417), Azerbaijani Ḥurūfī poet *

Idris Imad al-Din Idris Imad al-Din ( ar, إدريس عماد الدين بن الحسن القرشي, Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Qurashī; 1392 – 10 June 1468) was the 19th Tayyibi Isma'ili '' Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq'' and a major religious and politic ...

(1392–1468), head of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community and historian * Imad al-Din Mahmud ibn Mas‘ud Shirazi (mid 16th century), Persian physician *

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 *

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 *

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 * Imad ud-din Lahiz (died 1900), Islamic writer who converted to Christianity *

Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI Sultan Haji Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI Iskandar was the sultan of the Maldives from 1893 to 1902. Sultan Imaaduddeen was born on 25 October 1868 to Prince Hassan Izzuddeen and Maandhoogey Dhon Didi. He was the younger half brother of Sultan Muhammad ...

(1868–1932), sultan of the Maldives *

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad (also known as Dean Ahmad) (born August 11, 1948) is a Palestinian American scholar and the president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, a libertarian 501(c)(3) tax-exempt think-tank. He also is president of the Islamic-Americ ...

(born 1948), American Muslim scholar *Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, known as

Dodi Fayed Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em Fayed (; arz, عماد الدين محمد عبد المنعم الفايد, ʿImād ed-Dīn Muḥammad ʿAbd el-Munʿim el-Fāyid , 17 April 1955 – 31 August 1997), better known as Dodi Fayed ( ar, دودى ...

(1955–1997), Egyptian film producer *

Emadeddin Baghi Emadeddin Baghi (born 25 April 1962) is an Iranian Journalist, human rights activist, prisoners' rights advocate, investigative journalist, theologian and writer. He is the founder and head of the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights and ...

, Iranian journalist and political activist * Ja'far us Sadiq Imaduddin, Indian Scholar *

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 Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas alias Abu Dahdah ( ar, أبو الدحداح 'Abū ad-Daḥdāh) is a Syrian-born Spaniard sentenced to a 27-year prison term in Spain for his part in the September 11, 2001, attacks and for his membership in the banned ...

, Syrian-born Spaniard sentenced to prison in Spain for his part in the September 11, 2001 attacks

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Arabic masculine given names