Mazlum (maẓlūm) is an Arabic term for "oppressed, ill-treated, injured, sinned-against" (the antonym being ẓālim "oppressor"; root ẓlm "to oppress").

In Shiism, the term adopted a meaning of "pietistic" tolerance, given as a byname to Husayn ibn Ali, who was killed in the Battle of Karbala. The term is used for a person who is unwilling to act against an injustice, not out of cowardice but out of generosity or forbearance.[1]

It came to be used as a male given name in the Perso-Arabic cultural sphere, and later also in Turkish, pronounced [ˈmazɫum].

People named Mazlum include:

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  1. ^ Hamid Enayat, Modern Islamic Political Thought, I.B.Tauris, 2005, p. 183. Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History, eds. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, SUNY Press, 1989, p. 54.

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