Ubayd Allah ( ar, عبيد الله), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God".
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Obaidullah
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Obaidullah (detainee)
Obaidullah (born 1980) is a citizen of Afghanistan who was one of the last remaining Afghan detainees held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.Obaidullah (Bangladeshi cricketer), Bangladeshi cricketer
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Obaidullah (Pakistani cricketer)
Obaidullah (born 4 June 1992) is a Pakistani cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Pakistan International Airlines in the 2016–17 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy on 7 October 2016. He made his Twenty20 debut for Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, ...
Obaidullah Akhund
Mullah Obaidullah the Akhund ( ps, ملا عبيدالله آخوند; – March 5, 2010) was the Defence Minister in the Afghan Taliban government of 1996–2001 and then an insurgent commander during the Taliban insurgency against the Afgh ...
Obaidullah Baig
Obaidullah Baig (1 October 1936 – 22 June 2012) ( ur, عبيدالله بيگ) was a scholar, Urdu writer/novelist, columnist, media expert and documentary filmmaker from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
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Obaidullah Rameen Obaidullah Ramin (born 27 September 1952, in Baghlan Province) is a politician in Afghanistan and was appointed the country's Minister of Agriculture
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Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh/ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (), 873 – 4 March 934, better known by his regnal name al-Mahdi Billah, was the founder of the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate, the only major Shi'a caliphate in Islamic history, and the ...
, founder of the Fatimid dynasty
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Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh ( ar, عبيد الله بن جحش) () was one of the four monotheistic hanifs mentioned by Ibn Ishaq, the others being Waraka ibn Nawfal, Uthman ibn Huwairith and Zayd ibn Amr.
Biography
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Ubayd Allah ibn Umar
Ubayd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab ( ar, عبيد الله بن عمر بن الخطاب, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb; died summer 657) was a son of Caliph Umar (). His killing of Hormuzan, whom he suspected of involvement in h ...
, son of Caliph Umar
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Ubayd-Allah ibn Ziyad
ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ziyād ( ar, عبيد الله بن زياد, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ziyād) was the Umayyad governor of Basra, Kufa and Khurasan during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I and Yazid I, and the leading general of the Umayyad army unde ...
, a son of Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan
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Obeid Allah ibn al-Habhab Ubayd Allah ibn al-Habhab al-Saluli () was an important Umayyad official in Egypt from 724 to 734, and subsequently Umayyad governor of Kairouan, Ifriqiya from 734 to 741. It was under his rule that the Great Berber Revolt broke out in the Maghreb ...
, important Umayyad official in Egypt from 724 to 734
* Ubaydah ibn al-Harith, son of Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib
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Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī
Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī ( ar, أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز بن محمد بن أيوب بن عمرو البكري), or simply al-Bakrī (c. 1040–1 ...
, Andalusian-Arab geographer and historian
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Abu Zafar Obaidullah
Abu Zafar Obaidullah (1934–2001) was a Bangladeshi poet. Two of his long poems, ''Aami-Kingbodontir-Kathaa Bolchi'' and ''Bristi O Shahosi Purush-er Jonyo Pranthona'', have become famous since their first publication in the late 1970s.
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, Bangladeshi writer
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Dean Obeidallah
Dean Obeidallah (born December 17, 1969) is an American lawyer, comedian, and journalist. He is the host of SiriusXM Progress' ''The Dean Obeidallah Show'' and a frequent contributor to CNN, The Daily Beast, and MSNBC.
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, American comedian
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Habibah binte Ubayd-Allah
Habibah bint Ubayd Allah ( ar, حبيبة بنت عبيد الله, Habîbe bint-i Ubeyd Allāh) is the daughter of Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh and Ramla bint Abi Sufyan.
Family background
Habibah's father was the brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh, whom M ...
, daughter of Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh
* Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah, a companion of Muhammad
Ubaydul Haq (disambiguation) Ubaydul Haq is an Arabic phrase meaning ''Servant of the Truth''. It may refer to
* M. Obaidul Huq (died 2012), Bangladeshi engineer, freedom fighter and politician
* Obaidul Haque (1934–2008), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician
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