Abdul Basir
Abdul Basir (Arabic: عبد البصير) is a male Arabic given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al-, and Basir. The name means "servant of the All-seeing", Al-Basīr 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 u. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Basir, Baseer, Basser, or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
It may refer to:
- Abdul Basir Salangi, Governor of Parwan Province, Afghanistan
- Abdul Basir (torture victim) (died 2009), Afghan man who died in custody
- Taha Abdul-Basser, American Muslim Chaplain of Harvard University
- Abdul Baser Wasiqi (born 1975), Afghan athlete
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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