Muslim (
Arabic: مُسْلِمmuslim), 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'.
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 (أَسْلَمaslam), which both names stems from the male noun-name
Salaam.
Abu Muslim, full name Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (born 718/19 or 723/27, died 755), Persian general in service of the Abbasid dynasty, who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty
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
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