Halim
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Halim (حليم) is an Arabic adjective with two meanings.
- In Islam, al-Halim is one of the 99 names of God
- A virtue that can be translated as gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger—"what we call a civilized man" [1]
Halim is also a name given to a male (as Abdul Halim):
- Abdul Hamid Halim, 28th Sultan of Kedah
- Abdel Halim Ali, Egyptian footballer
- Halim Barakat, Syrian novelist
- Halim Begaj, Albanian footballer
- Halim Benmabrouk, Algerian footballer
- Halim El-Dabh, American composer
- Halim El Roumi, Lebanese musician
- Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer
- Halim (album), a Belgian record named after him
- Halim (film), a film based on him
- Abdul Halim bin Haron, Singaporean bodybuilder
- Halim Haryanto, American badminton player
- Abdul Halim Khaddam, ex-Vice President of Syria
- Abd Halim Mahmud, 46th Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University
- Halim Medaci, Algerian footballer
- Halim Nassim Abi Chahine, Lebanese surgeon
- Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier
- Halim Saad, Malaysian businessman
- Abdul Halim Sadiqi, Pakistani terror suspect
- Halim Shah, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Abdul Halim Sharar, Indian historian
- Sheikh Abdul Halim, Chechen rebel
- Tuanku Abdul Halim, current Sultan of Kedah
Halim may also be a last name:
- Aziza Abdel-Halim, President of the Muslim Women's National Network, Australia
- Helmy Halim, Egyptian filmmaker
- Mustafa Ben Halim, ex-Prime Minister of Libya
- Rachman Halim, Indonesian businessman
[edit] Notes
- ^ Golziher, Ignaz, Muslim Studies, ed. S.M. Stern (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. 202–203, as cited in Stetkevych, Jaroslav, Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Deconstructing Arabian Myth (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 14.
