Qasim (name)

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Qasim (Arabic: قاسم‎)is a male Arabic given name that means "the person who distributes."

People named Qasim include:

• Qasim ibn Muhammad, son of Muhammad
• Qasim ibn Hassan, son of the second Shia Imam Hasan and grandson of Muhammad
• Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr, grandson of the first Muslim caliph Abu Bakr

Famous people also often referred to by their patronymic name:

• Muhammad bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi, Umayyad general who conquered Sindh
• Leila Qasim, a Kurdish activist against the Iraqi Ba'ath party

[edit] See also

• Arabic name
• List of Arabic names