''Naqib'', plural ''naqib'', is an Arabic word meaning "He who investigates, verifies". It can refer to:

Historical titles

* The "twelve naqibs", the leading missionaries of the ''

Hashimiyya The Kaysanites () were a Shi'i sect of Islam that formed from the followers of Al-Mukhtar. They traced Imamate from Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah and his descendants. The name Kaysaniyya was most likely derived from the name of Mukhtar's chief gu ...

'' movement who prepared the

Abbasid Revolution The Abbasid Revolution, also called the Movement of the Men of the Black Raiment, was the overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE), the second of the four major Caliphates in early History of Islam, Islamic history, by the third, the A ...

in Khurasan. * The ''

naqib al-ashraf Naqib al-ashraf () (plural: ''nuqaba'' or ''niqabat'') was a governmental post in various Muslim empires denoting the head or supervisor of the descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.Damurdashi, ed. Muhammad, p. 43. The descendants of Muhammad ...

'', an honorary position in various Islamic states, given to the head representative of the ''

ashraf Sharīf ( ar, شريف, 'noble', 'highborn'), also spelled shareef or sherif, feminine sharīfa (), plural ashrāf (), shurafāʾ (), or (in the Maghreb) shurfāʾ, is a title used to designate a person descended, or claiming to be descended, fr ...

'', the descendants of Muhammad.

Surname

Mullah Naqib Mullah Naqib Alikozai, sometimes called Naqibullah (c.1950 – 11 October 2007), was an Afghan mujahideen commander and politician from the Kandahar area of southern Afghanistan. He was the leader of the Alikozai Pashtun tribe. Mujahideen com ...

(1950–2007), Afghan mujahideen commander *

Falah Hassan al-Naqib Falah Hassan al-Naqib ( ar, فلاح حسن النقيب) is an Iraqi politician and was the Minister of Interior under the Iraqi Interim Government. Biography Born in 1956 in Samarra, he is a Sunni Arab. He trained in the United States as a civi ...

(born 1956), Iraqi politician *

Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib ( ar, زهير طالب عبد الستار النقيب; 1948 – 15 June 2020) was the last director of military intelligence in Iraq before the 2003 invasion US-led of Iraq. Biography He surrendered hims ...

, director of Iraqi military intelligence {{disambig, surname