Abdul Ahad

Abdul Ahad (Arabic: عبد الاحد ‎‎) is an Arabic male given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Ahad. The name means "servant of the only One", Al-Ahad being one of the names of God for Arabic-speaking Christians as well as for Muslims. It is listed 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 u. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

• Abd ul-Aḥad Dāwūd, name adopted by David Benjamin Keldani (1867–c.1940), Persian Catholic priest who converted to Islam
• Abdul-Ahad Dawood Tappouni, birth name of Ignatius Gabriel I Tappuni (1879–1968), patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church
• Abdul Ahad Wardak (c.1880–1949), Afghan politician
• Abdul Ahad Azad (1903–1948), Kashmiri poet
• Abdoul Ahad Mbacké (1914-1989), Senegalese religious leader
• Abdul Ahad (music director) (1920–1994), Bangladeshi lyricist and music director
• Abdul Ahad Karzai, (1922–1999), Afghan politician
• Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad (born 1930), patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church
• Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit (born 1942), chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China
• Abdul Ahad Momand (born 1959), Afghan-German cosmonaut
• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (born 1975), Iraqi journalist
• Abdulahad Malik (born 1986), Indian cricketer
• Shah Abdul Ahad Afzali, Afghan politician
• Abdel Ahad Gamal El Din, Egyptian politician

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.