Yakub
Yakub (Arabic: يعقوب, also transliterated in other ways including Yaqoob, Yaqoub, Yaqub and Yakup) is the Arabic and muslim version of Jacob, a Prophet of Islam (see Jacob in Islam) and hence commonly used as a male given name in Arab, Turkish and Muslim societies. It is also used as a surname.
Nation of Islam
Yakub (Nation of Islam) was, according to the Nation of Islam, a black scientist who lived 6,600 years ago and created the white race.
Other people with this given name
Pre-modern times
- Yaqub Beg, Tajik adventurer
- Yakub Çelebi, Ottoman Sehzade, son of Sultan Murad I
- Yaqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari
- Ya'qub ibn Killis, Egyptian vizier
- Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari, Persian leader
- Ya'qub al-Mansur, Almohad caliph
- Yaqūb ibn Tāriq, Persian astronomer and mathematician
Modern times
- Yakub Cemil, Ottoman soldier in the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état
- Yaqub al-Ghusayn, Palestinian leader
- Yakub Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish diplomat
- Yaqub Kareem, Nigerian boxer of the 2000s and 2010s
- Yakub Khan Mehboob Khan, Indian film actor and director
- Yakub Kolas, Belarusian writer
- Yaqub al-Mansur, Sultan of Morocco
- Yakub Memon, Indian terrorist of Kutchi Memon community
- Yaqub Mirza, Pakistani businessman
- Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasar, former Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
- Yakub Hasan Sait, Indian businessman, freedom-fighter and politician
- Yaqoob Salem Al-Farsi, Omani footballer
- Yaqub Salimov, Tajik politician
- Yaqub Sanu, Egyptian journalist
- Yakub Shevki Pasha, General of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army
- Yakup Köse, Turkish journalist
People with this surname
- Abdul Razzak Yaqoob, Pakistani expatriate businessman based in Dubai
- Chaudhry Yaqoob, ex-Inspector General of the Balochistan Police in Pakistan
- Mohammad Yakub, Indian cricketer
- Roman Yakub, American composer
- Salma Yaqoob (born 1971), the leader of Respect – The Unity Coalition and a Birmingham City Councillor
- Muhammad Hussein Yacoub
- Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
- Atta Yaqub
See also
- Yakup, Turkish form of the name
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