Taha (name)

Taha (Arabic: طه‎, Ṭāhā) is a male Arabic given name. The name is formed with two Arabic letters, Ta and Ha. It is also a chapter (sura 20) in the Qur'an.

Given name

• Taha Akgül (born 1990), Turkish sport wrestler
• Taha Carim (1914–1977), Turkish diplomat
• Taha Hussein (1889–1973), Egyptian writer and Arabic literary scholar
• Taha Yassin Ramadan (1938–2007), Iraqi politician
• Taha Butt (born 1975) Pakistani singer and music composer.

Surname

• Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha, Iraqi chess player
• Mahmoud Taha born 1942), Jordanian artist
• Mahmoud Mohamed Taha (1909–1985), Sudanese political figure and theologian
• Mohammad Taha, co-founding member of the Palestinian military group Hamas
• Mohammed Taha (journalist) (died 2006), Sudanese journalist and newspaper editor
• Rachid Taha (born 1958), Algerian and French musician
• Riad Taha (1927–1980), Lebanese journalist, President of the Lebanese Publishers' Association, assassinated
• Rihab Taha (born 1957), English-educated Iraqi microbiologist who worked in Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program
• Wasil Taha (born 1952), Israeli Arab member of the Knesset

Places

• La Taha, municipality in the Alpujarras region of the province of Granada, Spain

See also

• Taha (disambiguation)
• Arabic name
• Wikipedia pages beginning with "Taha"