Abd as-Salam
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Abd as-Salam is the transliteration of a Theophoric Arabic given name.
[edit] Etymology
The name is built on the Arabic words Abd, al- and Salam. The name means "servant of the peaceful", As-Salam being one of the 99 names of God.
Other tranliterations include Abdul Salam, Abdoul Salam, Abdus Salam, Abd-ul-Salam, Abd al Salam.
[edit] Usage
People named such include:
- Abdul Salaam (football player) of the New York Jets American Football team
- Abdul Salam (Taliban Chief Justice), Chief Justice of the Taliban's Supreme Court
- Abdul Salam (Taliban leader, Kabul front, 2001), American intelligence analysts assert he was one of the commanders of the Taliban's Kabul Front during its 2001 collapse.
- Abdul Salam (Taliban leader, Karabak front, 2001), American intelligence analysts assert commandef the Taliban's Karabak Front.
- Abd al-Salam Ali al-Hila, a Yemeni citizen, a Guantanamo detaiee ID # 1463
- Abdul Salam Arif, president of Iraq
- Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, a Guantanamo detainee ID # 132
- Abdul-Salam Ojeili, a Syrian novelist and politician
- Abdul Salam Sabrah, an acting Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
- Abdul Salam Rocketti, a Taliban commander famous for shooting down a Soviet helicopter with a rocket propelled grenade, who ran for office in 2005.
- Abdoul Salam Sow, a Guinean football player
- Abdul Salam Zaeef, a Taliban ambassador to Pakistan
- Ashraf Salim Abd Al Salam Sultan, a Guantanamo detaiee ID # 263
- Mehdat Abdul Salam Shabana, a member of the board of directors of Konsojaya Trading Company, a terrorist front organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Abdesslam Yassine, leader of Moroccan Islamist organisation Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane
- Dr Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate.
