Luay, Luayy or Louay (

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

: لُؤَيّ ''lū’ayy'', ), also spelled Loai, Loay or Luai, is an Arabic male given name from the noun ''la’y'' (لَأْي), meaning "Strong, Patient, a Sheild and/or Protector". Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Luay Hamza Abbas Luay Hamza Abbas (born 1965) is an Iraqi writer. He now teaches literary criticism at Basra University. Abbas has published several volumes of short stories and one novel. In 2010, the National Endowment of the Arts awarded a grant to academic ...

, Iraqi writer *

Louay Almokdad Louay Almokdad ( ar, لؤي المقداد; born 20 December 1982) is a Syrian-British politician and businessman. He was born in 1982 in Damascus, Syria. Education He studied in Damascus until high school, and graduated from the American Un ...

, Syrian-British businessman and politician *

Luai al-Atassi Lu'ay al-Atassi ( ar, لؤي الأتاسي, Luʾay al-ʾAtāsī; 1926 − 24 November 2003) was a senior commander in the Syrian Army and later the President of Syria between 9 March and 27 July 1963. Early life and career Atassi was born in Hom ...

, Syrian military leader *

Louay Chanko Louay Chanko ( ar, لؤي شنكو; born 29 November 1979) is a professional football coach and former player. Born in Sweden, Chanko represented Sweden internationally as a midfielder, before switching allegiance to Syria. After his playing c ...

, Syrian footballer *

Louay Kayyali Louay Kayali ( ar, لؤي كيالي), (20 January 1934 – 26 January 1978) was a Syrian modern artist. Biography Kayali was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1934 and studied art in the Accademia di Belle Arti after having studied at the Al-Tajhiz Sch ...

, Syrian modern artist *

Luay Nakhleh Luay K. Nakhleh (Arabic): لؤي نخله; born May 8, 1974) is a Palestinian-Israeli-American computer scientist and computational biologist who is the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, a Professor of ...

, Palestinian-Israeli-American professor of computer science *

Louay M. Safi Louay M. Safi is a Syrian people, Syrian-Syrian American, American, a scholar of Islam and the Middle East, and an advocate of Arab and Muslim American rights. He published on such issues as social and political development, modernization, democra ...

, Syrian-American scholar of Islam *

Luay Salah Luay Salah Hassan ( ar, لؤي صلاح حسن , born February 7, 1982 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi former Football (soccer), football player. He played for Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Zawraa, Persepolis FC, Persepolis and Erbil SC, Erbil. He scored ...

, Iraqi footballer *

Loai al-Saqa Loai Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa ( ar, لؤي محمد حج بكر الصقا) is a Syrian member of al-Qaeda, convicted of masterminding and financing the 2003 Istanbul bombings. In February 2007, he was sentenced to 67 life sentences by the Turkish ...

, Syrian al-Qaeda member *

Loay Taleb Louay Taleb ( ar, لؤي طالب; born August 9, 1975 in Damascus, Syria) is a retired Syrian football player. He ended his career as a player at Al-Wahda in 2002 and became one of the assistant coaches there. He moved to Al-Faisaly club in Jor ...

, Syrian footballer

Family name

Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy ( ar, كَعْب ٱبْن لُؤَيّ) is an ancestor of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Arabic tradition. Ancestry Ka'b Lu'ayy was born in c. 305, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia to Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib and Ma'wiya bint Ka`b ibn al-Qayn i ...

, ancestor of the

Islamic prophet Prophets in Islam ( ar, الأنبياء في الإسلام, translit=al-ʾAnbiyāʾ fī al-ʾIslām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God in Islam, God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour. So ...

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...

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