Yakub or Yaqub ( ar, يعقوب, Yaʿqūb or Ya'kūb , links=no, also transliterated in other ways) is a male given name. It is the
Arabic version of
Jacob and
James. The Arabic form ''Ya'qūb/Ya'kūb'' may be direct from the
Hebrew or indirectly through
Syriac.
[ Jane Dammen McAuliffe (General Editor) Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an Volume Three : J-O] The name was in use in
pre-Islamic Arabia[ and is a common ]given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
in Arab, Turkish, and Muslim societies. It is also used as a surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
. It is common in Polish, Czech and Slovak languages, where it is transliterated as Jakub.
Yakub may also refer to:
Religious figures
* Yāˈqub bin Isḥāq bin Ibrāhīm (Jacob), prophet of Islam
* Yakub (Nation of Islam), creator of the white race according to that belief system
*Syed Yaqub
Syed Yaˈqūb ( bn, সৈয়দ ইয়াকুব, ar, ) was a 14th-century Sufi Muslim figure in the Sylhet region. In 1303, he took part in the final battle of the Conquest of Sylhet led by Shah Jalal.
Life
Yaqub Shah was born in Yeme ...
, a 14th-century Sufi Muslim figure in the Sylhet region
*Yaqub al-Charkhi
Yaqub al Charkhi (Persian یعقوب الچرخی) was a Naqshbandi Sheykh and student of Khwaja Sayyid Alauddin Atar. Yaqub Charkhi was born in 762, in a village called Charkh in Logar, Afghanistan AH and died in 851. He was a Sufi master an ...
(1360–1360), Naqshbandi Sheykh and student of Khwaja Baha' al-Din Naqshband
Other people with this given name
Pre-modern times
* Ya'qub al-Mansur, Almohad ruler Reigned from 1184 to 1199.
*''Ya'qub ibn Abdallah al-Mansur'' (b. 760s
The 760s decade ran from January 1, 760, to December 31, 769.
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