Abdul Sattar

Abdul Sattar (Arabic: عبد الستار ‎‎) is a male Muslim given name, built on the Arabic words Abd, al- and Sattar. The name means "servant of the Veiler (of sins)".^[1][2]

Because the letter s is a sun letter, the letter l of the al- is usually assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written with letters corresponding to Abd al-Sattar, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Abd as-Sattar. Alternative transliterations include Abdus Sattar, Abd al-Sattar and others, all subject to variant spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

• Abdus Sattar (president) (1906–1985), Bangladeshi jurist and politician who served as president of Bangladesh, November 1981 to March 1982
• Maulana Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi (1915–2001), Pakistani religious and political leader
• Abdus Sattar (Murshidabad politician) (born 1925), Indian National Congress politician
• Mohammad Abdus Sattar (1925–2011), Indian footballer
• Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928-2016), Pakistani philanthropist
• Abdul Sattar Afghani (1930–2006), Pakistani politician
• Abdul Satar Sirat (born 1937), Afghan politician
• Abdus Suttar Khan (1941–2008), Bangladeshi aerospace researcher
• Abdul Sattar Jawad (born 1943), Iraqi-American professor of English
• Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad (1956–2010), chief of staff of the Iraqi armed forces before the 2003 invasion
• Abdul Sattar Abu Risha (1972–2007), Iraqi Sunni tribal leader and ally of the U.S.
• Abdel Sattar Sabry (born 1974), Egyptian footballer
• Abdul Sattar (Guantanamo detainee 10) (born 1981), Pakistani prisoner in Guantanamo
• Abdul Sattar Bhagat (active 1970), Pakistani cricketer
• Abdul Sattar (diplomat), Foreign Minister of Pakistan 1993 and 1999–2002
• Abdus Sattar (West Bengal politician), Communist Party of India (Marxist) 21st century politician
• Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib, director of military intelligence in Iraq before the 2003 invasion
• Abdel-Sattar Abdel-Jabbar, Iraqi political activist in 2004
• Abdussattar Shaikh, FBI informant 1994–2003
• Abdul-Satar al-Bahadli (fl. 2004), Iraqi Shi'a cleric
• Abdul Sattar Murad, Afghan politician, governor of Kapisa province 2004–07

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.