Asad (name)

Asad/Assad
Gender	male
Origin
Meaning	"lion"
Other names
See also	Asad (Lion), As'sad (The most compassionate)

Asad sometimes written as Assad (Arabic: أسد‎) is one of many Arabic male given names meaning "lion", each denoting some aspect of the animal . It is used in nicknames such as Asad Allāh one of the nicknames for Ali ibn Abi Talib.

Among prominent people named Asad or "Assad" are:

Asadullah, Lion of God.
Asad ibn Hashim, maternal grandfather of Ali ibn Abi Talib.
Asad ibn Saman, an early Samanid.
Khuwaylid ibn Asad
Asad Iqbal
Muhammad Asad, born Leopold Weiss
Talal Asad, anthropologist, son of Muhammed Asad
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, a famous Urdu and Persian poet of India
Clarice Assad, a classical and jazz composer, arranger, pianist, and vocalist.

The Assads are an Alawite family from the Lattakia region (specifically Qardaha), which has since 1970 held political power in Syria. The family has produced two presidents:

Hafez al-Assad – President of Syria from 1970–2000
Bashar al-Assad – Current President of Syria
Basil al-Assad
Rifaat al-Assad
Jamil al-Assad
Maher al-Assad
Bushra al-Assad

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