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 sur ...

''ẓlm'' "to oppress"). In Shiism, the term adopted a meaning of "pietistic" tolerance, given as a byname to

Husayn ibn Ali Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...

, who was killed in the Battle of Karbala. 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 Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and mi ...

, . 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 Mazlum Kayalar (1911 – 3 February 1972) wss a Turkish politician. He was born in Kayılar district in Macedonia. He is a graduate of Istanbul University Faculty of Law. Bursa Judge's Office, Çanakkale Deputy General Manager, Ministry of Fina ...

, Turkish politician * a character in the medieval Arabic drama

Delhemma ''Delhemma'' or ''Sirat Delhemma'' ("Tale of Lady Delhemma") is a popular epic of the Arabic literature regarding the Arab–Byzantine wars of the Umayyad and early Abbasid periods. Title variations The full name of the work, as given in its 1909 ...

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