Uthman
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Uthman (also spelled Othman, Arabic: عثمان) is a male Arabic given name."[1] It is popular as a male given name among Sunnis. It is also transliterated as Osman or Usman, as there is no -th sound in Persian, where it was first used.
It is also a less common name of German origins. [2]
The following people share this name:
- Uthman ibn Affan, third caliph of Muslims;
- Uthman Abu Qahafa was Abu Bakr's father
- Uthman ibn Ali, brother of Abbas, was among the List of casualties at the Battle of Karbala
- Uthman al-Asghar, was one of the sons of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Uthman al-Akbar, was one of the sons of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Uthman ibn Naissa, was a Berber Wāli of Narbonne and effective Muslim governor of Septimania.
- Uthman I, a Marinid caliph
- Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, a Yemeni who is in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo Bay
- Al-Aziz Uthman, was the second son of Saladin and the second Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt
- Ibn al-Salah, was a Kurdish Shafi'i hadith specialist
- Othman Saat, was a former Chief Minister of the state of Johor in Malaysia.
- Azalina Othman Said was a Tourism Minister of Malaysia
- Tuanku Sultan Otteman II, was a former Sultan of Deli
- Uthman ibn Ali (Bey of Tunis) was the sixth leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia briefly in 1814.
- Abdul Ghani Othman is the current Menteri Besar of the state of Johor in Malaysia
- Othman Benjelloun, businessman and CEO of BMCE Bank
- Barbara Uthmann, businesswoman and supporter of Bobbin lace
[edit] References
[edit] Fiction
- Othman, a fictional historical character in the Christopher Paolini book of Inheritance.
