Abdul Alim

Abdul Alim (Arabic: عبد العليم‎) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Alim. The name means "servant of the All-knowing", Al-'Alīm being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.^[1][2]

The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by u. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part can be spelled Alim or Aleem, or in other ways, with the whole name subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

• Abdul Aleem Siddiqi (1892–1954), Bangaldeshi Sufi teacher
• Abdulalim A. Shabazz (born 1927), American mathematician
• Abdul Alim (folk singer) (1931–1984), Bangaldeshi folk musician
• Helal El-Saaed Abdel Alim (1940–2007), Egyptian journalist
• Abdul Alim Musa (born 1945), American Muslim activist
• Issam Abdel-Tawab Abdel Alim, full name of Issam Alim, convicted in Egypt for terrorist offfences

See also

• Masjid Abdul Aleem Siddique, mosque in Singapoer

References

1. ^ Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company. 
2. ^ S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.