Abu al-Qasim
The name Abu al-Qasim (Arabic: أبو القاسم), meaning father of Qasim, is a kunya or attributive name of Islamic prophet Muhammad, describing him as father to his son Qasim ibn Muhammad. Since then the name has been used by the following:
People
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936–1013), or Abulcasis, Arab surgeon and physician who lived in Al-Andalus
- Abu al-Qasim Ferdowsi (940–1020), Persian poet
- Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad (ruled 1023–1042, founder and eponym of the Abbadid dynasty in Al-Andalus
- Abu'l Qasim (Seljuk governor of Nicaea) (ruled 1084-1092)
- Abu Al-Qasim Mahmud Ibn 'Umar Al-Zamakhshari (1074 or 1075–1143 or 1144), Muslim scholar
- Abu-l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Qasi (died 1151), leader of the opposition against the Almoravid dynasty in Al-Garb Al-Andalus
- At-Tayyib Abi l-Qasim (twelfth century), Fatimid Imām
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani (1734/35-1833), Berber historian, geographer, poet and statesman from Morocco
- Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq, known as A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873—1962), Bengali politician
- Abol-Ghasem Kashani (1882-1962), Iranian Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric
- Abolqasem Lahouti (1887-1957), Persian poet
- Abolqasem Najm (1892–1981), Iranian politician, cabinet minister, and diplomat
- Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (1899–1992), Twelver Shi'a Islamic grand ayatollah (marja)
- Abu'l-Qásim Faizi (1906–1980), Persian Bahá'í
- Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (1909-1934), Tunisian poet
- Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol (1940–1983), Egyptian poet
- Mohamed Abu Al-Quasim al-Zwai (born 1952), Secretary General of Libya's General People's Congress
Places
- Abul Kasim (mountain), mountain in Ethiopia
- Abulkasym Madrassah, building in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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