Abu Bakr (name)
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Abu Bakr is a male Arabic given name that means "Father of Camel", after the nickname of Abu Bakr, the first Sunni Caliph.
Other transliterations include Abu Bakar, Abubakar or Abu Bekr.
People named Hazm include:
- Abu Bakr
- Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Hazm - scholar
- Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad
- Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Walid al-Tartushi
- Abu Bakr ibn ‘Abd Al-Rahman ibn Harith
People using it in their patronymic include:
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- Abu Bakr (573-634), first Muslim Caliph
- Many of Abu Bakr's descendants are styled 'ibn Abu Bakr' (male) or 'bint Abu Bakr' (female)
- Abū Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (865-925), Persian philosopher and physician
- Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli (880-946), Arab shatranj player
- Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar (d. 1097), Moroccan Almoravid ruler
- Abu-Bekr Mohammed Ibn Tophail (1100–1185), Andalusian Arab physician and philosopher
- Abu-Bakr Malik Al-Adil I (1145-1218), brother of Saladin
- Abu Bakr, 13th century Prince of the Mali Empire
- Abu Bakr II, 14th century Prince of the Mali Empire
- Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor (1833-1895)
- Sultan Abu Bakar (1904-1974), Sultan of Penang
- Abu Bakar Bashir (b. 1938), Indonesian Muslim cleric
- Admiral Tan Sri Dato' Seri Abu Bakar bin Abdul Jamal (b. 1946), admiral in the Malaysian Navy
- Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Yemeni Prime Minister, 1990-1994
- Atiku Abubakar, Vice President of Nigeria
- Yasin Abu Bakr, 21st century black Muslim leader and terrorist suspect
- Abubakar Tariq Nadama, autistic boy killed through medical malpractice
- Pseudonym of Australian terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika
[edit] See also
- Arabic name
- List of Arabic names
- Wikipedia pages beginning with "Abu Bakr"