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Muslim (name)

Muslim (Arabic: مُسْلِم muslim), also transliterated as Moslem or Müslüm (Turkish), is an Arabic male given name meaning 'pure, clear, immaculate, clean, taintless, straight, absolute', 'devout, god-fearing, pious, complaisant, obedient, submissive', 'virtuous, chaste, modest, blameless, innocent'.

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PronunciationArabic: [muslim]
Persian: [muslim]
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Origin
Word/nameArabic
Meaningmuslim

It is also the proper name for the followers of the religion Islam and solely a Muslim name.

The name Muslim is a diminutive of the name Aslam (أَسْلَم aslam), which both names stems from the male noun-name Salaam.

It may refer to:

Given name

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Historical figures

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  • Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Nishapuri, d. 875 CE, hadith scholar
  • Muslim ibn Aqil, Islamic figure, son of Aqil ibn Abi Talib and a member of the clan of Bani Hashim, thus, he is a cousin of Hussain ibn Ali
  • Muslim ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Islamic figure, a central figure among the early collectors of sīra—biographies of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad and hadith literature
  • Muslim ibn Uqba, (pre-622–683) was a general of the Umayyad Caliphate during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I and his son and successor Yazid I
  • Muslim ibn Sa'id al-Kilabi, was governor of Khurasan for the Umayyad Caliphate in 723–724
  • Muslim ibn Quraysh, d. 1085 CE, Uqaylid king (emir) of Mosul and Aleppo during 1061–1085. Considered the last strong Arab ruler of Upper Mesopotamia before the takeover of Turkic nomads

Contemporary figures

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Surname

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See also

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