''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 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 or Sherif (, 'noble', 'highborn'), also spelled shareef, feminine sharīfa (), plural ashrāf (), shurafāʾ (), or (in the Maghreb) shurfāʾ, is a title used to designate a person descended, or claiming to be descended, from the famil ...

'', the descendants of Muhammad.

Surname

Mullah Naqib Mullah Naqib Alikozai, sometimes called Naqibullah ( 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 (born 1956), Iraqi politician * Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib, director of Iraqi military intelligence {{disambig, surname