Sa‘id (name)

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Sa‘īd (سعيد) is a male Arabic given name meaning "happy", used by both Christian Arabs and Muslims. The name can also be transliterated as Saïd or Said.

[edit] People named Sa‘id

As a given name:

• Sa'id ibn Zayd
• Sa'id Ibn Sultan
• Sa'id Hormozi
• Sheikh Said various meanings

As a surname:

• Abdelmadjid Sidi Said, leader of the Algerian trade union: UGTA
• Edward Said (1935–2003), Palestinian-American literary critic and theorist
• Samira Said, a Moroccan pop star.
• Wafic Saïd (born 1939), Syrian businessman

Named Abu Sa‘id (meaning "father of Sa‘id"):

• Abu Sa'id (Ilkhanid dynasty) (1316–1335), ninth ruler of the Ilkhanate state in Iran
• Abu Sa'id (Timurid dynasty) (1424–1469), mid-fifteenth century Timurid Empire ruler in what are today parts of Persia and Afghanistan
• Khaled Hassan Abu Sa‘id (born 1928), Palestinian Liberation Organization
• Abusaeid Abolkheir (also known as Abu Sa‘eed), a Persian Sufi and poet

Fictional People:

• Kareem Said, from the T.V. Series Oz.

[edit] Other uses

• Port Said, an Egyptian town on the Suez Canal
• Saïd Business School, the business school of the University of Oxford in England; named after Wafic Saïd

[edit] See also

• List of Arabic names
• Sa'd (name)