Abdul Malik

Abdul Malik (Arabic: عبد الملك‎) is a Arabic (Muslim or Christian) male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Malik. The name means "servant of the King", Al-Malik being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.^[1][2]

The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by e. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Malik, Malek or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

There is a distinct but related name, Abdul Maalik (Arabic: عبد المالك‎), meaning "servant of the Owner", referring to the Qur'anic name Mālik-ul-Mulk. The two names are difficult to distinguish in transliteration, and some of the names below are instance of the latter one.

It may refer to:

Males

• Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (646–705), 5th Umayyad Caliph, ruling from Damascus
• Abd al-Malik ibn Salih (died 812), Abbasid prince and general
• Abd al-Malik ibn Quraib al-Asma'i (ca. 740-828), Iraqi scholar
• Abd al-Malik I (Samanid emir) (died 961), emir of the Sāmānids (Persia)
• Abd al-Malik II (Samanid emir) (fl. 999), emir of the Sāmānids (Persia)
• Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar (died 1008), general and vizier of the Caliphate of Cordoba, and governor of Seville and Saragossa
• Abu Manşūr 'Abd ul-Malik ibn Mahommed ibn Isma'īl, known as Tha'ālibī (961–1038), Persian-Arabic philologist and writer
• Abū Merwān ’Abdal-Malik ibn Zuhr (1091–1161), Muslim physician, pharmacist, surgeon, parasitologist and teacher in Al-Andalus
• Abd al-Malik ibn Rabi, early narrator of hadith
• Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi (died 1567), Sunni Muslim scholar
• Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi (died 1578), Sultan of Saadi Dynasty in Morocco
• Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II (reigned 1627–1631), Sultan of Morocco
• Abdalmalik of Morocco (died 1729), Sultan of Morocco
• Anwar bin Abdul Malik (1898–1998), Malaysian politician
• Abdul Malek Ukil (1924–1987), Bangladeshi lawyer and politician
• Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927–1993), Sudanese-American jazz musician
• Abdul Malik, name used by Michael X (1933–1975), Trinidadian black revolutionary
• Abdulmalik Dehamshe (born 1943), Arab-Israeli politician
• Abdul Malik Mujahid (born 1951), Pakistani-American imam
• Abdelmalek Droukdel (born 1970), Algerian al-Qaeda member
• Abd al Malik (rapper) (born 1975), Congolese-French rapper
• Abdul Malik Mydin (born 1975), Malaysian swimmer
• Ahmed Eid Abdel Malek (born 1980), Egyptian footballer
• Abdelmalek Cherrad (born 1981), Algerian footballer
• Abdelmalek Djeghbala (born 1983), Algerian footballer
• Abdolmalek Rigi (ca. 1983–2010), Iranian Sunni militant
• Abdelmalek Ziaya (born 1984), Algerian footballer
• Abdelmalek Mokdad (born 1985), Algerian footballer
• Abdul Malik (professor), Bangladeshi medical doctor
• Abdul Malik Jaber, Palesinain businessman
• Johari Abdul-Malik, American imam
• Abdul Malik Pahlawan, Afghan militia leader who led his forces for both the Taliban and Northern Alliance
• Abdulmalik Mohammed, Kenyan suspected of hotel bombing, held in Guantanamo
• Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, Yemeni rebel

Females

• Hanadi Tayseer Abdul Malek Jaradat, or just Hanadi Jaradat (1975–2003), Palestinian suicide bomber

Places

• Ramadan Ben-Abdelmalek Stadium, stadium in Constantine, Ageria

References

1. ^ Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company. 
2. ^ S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books. 

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