Abd al-Fattah

Abdel Fattah (Arabic: عبد الفتاح) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Fattaḥ. The name means "servant of the Conqueror", Al-Fattāḥ 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 Fattah, Fatah, or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

People with this name include:

Males

Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha (1876–1951), Egyptian politician
Abdelfattah Amr, also known as F. D. Amr Bey (1910–after 1972), Egyptian diplomat and squash player
Abdul Fattah Ismail (1939–1986), Yemeni politician
Abdul Fatah Younis (1944-2011), Libyan soldier and politician
Abdelfattah Kilito (born 1945), Moroccan writer
Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah (born 1949), Dutch actor
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (born 1962), Egyptian composer
Abdulfatah Ahmed (born 1963), Nigerian banker and politician
Essam Abd El Fatah (born 1965), Egyptian football referee
Mohamed Abdelfatah (born 1978), Egyptian wrestler
Hassan Abdel Fattah (born 1982), Jordanian footballer
Karim Adel Abdel Fatah (born 1982), Egyptian footballer
Abdul Fattah Al Agha (born 1984), Syrian footballer
Abdoul-Fatah Mustafa (born 1984), Cameroonian footballer
Abdul Fatawu Dauda (born 1985), Ghanaian footballer
Basel Abdoulfattakh (born 1990), Russian footballer
Abdoul Fatah (Malagasy politician)
Alaa Abd El-Fatah, Egyptian blogger and activist
Samih Abdel Fattah Iskandar
Samir Abdel Fattah, Yemeni short story writer, novelist and playwright
Abdolfattah Soltani, Iranian human rights lawyer
Abdul-Fattah Abu-Abdullah Adelabu, Nigerian scholar of Islamic and Arabic Studies, linguist, jurist and lecturer

Females

Randa Abdel-Fattah (born 1979), Australian writer
Israa Abdel Fatah, (born 1978), Egyptian internet activist and blogger

References

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

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[ahmed-1] Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.

[rahman-2] S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.

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