Mazlum (''maẓlūm'') is an Arabic term for "oppressed, ill-treated, injured, sinned-against" (the antonym being ''ẓālim'' "oppressor";

root In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often below the su ...

''ẓlm'' "to oppress"). In

Shiism Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...

, the term adopted a meaning of "pietistic" tolerance, given as a byname to Husayn ibn Ali, who was killed in the

Battle of Karbala The Battle of Karbala ( ar, مَعْرَكَة كَرْبَلَاء) was fought on 10 October 680 (10 Muharram in the year 61 AH of the Islamic calendar) between the army of the second Umayyad Caliph Yazid I and a small army led by Husayn ...

. The term is used for a person who is unwilling to act against an injustice, not out of cowardice but out of generosity or forbearance.Hamid Enayat, ''Modern Islamic Political Thought'', I.B.Tauris, 2005
p. 183
Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History, eds. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, SUNY Press, 1989
p. 54
It came to be used as a male given name in the Perso-Arabic cultural sphere, and later also in Turkish, . People named Mazlum include: *

Mazlum Çimen Mazlum Çimen (born 18 June 1958 in Elbistan, Kahramanmaraş) is a Turkish musician, ballet dancer, film actor, folk singer, and award-winning film score composer. Early life He was born in Sevdilli village of Elbistan in Kahramanmaraş Province on ...

, Turkish musician *

Mazlum Doğan Mazlum Doğan (born 1956, Seydan, Mazgirt, Dersim – died 21 March 1982, Diyarbakır, Turkey) was a journalist and a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. He was a Kurdish Alevi. He was the first chief editor of the party's newspaper ...

, Kurdish activist * Mazlum Kayalar, Turkish politician * a character in the medieval Arabic drama Delhemma'' Delhemma''

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