Abdul Majid

Abdul Majid (Arabic: عبد المجيد ‎) is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Majid. The name means "servant of the All-glorious", Al-Majīd 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 Majid, Majeed, Mecid (Turkish), Magid (Egyptian) or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

There is a distinct but closely related name, Abdul Maajid (Arabic: عبد الماجد ‎), with a similar meaning, formed on the Qur'anic name Al-Mājid. The two names are difficult to distinguish in transliteration, and some of the names below are instance of the latter one.

It may refer to:

Males

• Abdul Majid Hassan (ca. 1380-1408), Sultan of Brunei
• Tun Habib Abdul Majid (1637–1697), Bendahara of the Johor Sultanate
• Abdülmecid I (1823–1861), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
• Abdol Majid Mirza (1845–1927), Qajar prince and Prime Minister of Iran
• Abdülmecid II (1868–1944), Head of the Ottoman Imperial House
• Abdul Majeed Didi (1873–1952), Sultan of the Maldives
• Abdul Majeed Khwaja (1885–1962), Indian lawyer, educationist, social reformer and freedom fighter
• Abdul Majid Daryabadi (1892–1977), Indian Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur'an
• Abdul Majid Zabuli (1896–1998), Afghan banker
• Abdul Majid Kubar (born 1909), Libyan politician
• Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1919–1981), Moroccan novelist, journalist and ambassador
• Abd el-Majid Hidr, original name of Amos Yarkoni (1920–1991), Israeli Arab soldier
• Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid (born 1923), Egyptian diplomat
• Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (1937–2006), President of Iraq
• Abdelmajid Chetali (born 1939), Tunisian footballer
• Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, or just Ali Hassan al-Majid (1941–2010), Iraqi politician
• Abdul Majeed al-Zindani (born 1942), Yemeni academic and politician
• Abdul Majeed bin Abdul Aziz (ca. 1943–2007), Saudi prince
• Abdul Majid al-Qa′ud (born 1943), Libyan politician
• Abdelmajid Benjelloun (historian) (born 1944), Moroccan author, historian and poet
• Bassam Abdel Majeed (born 1950), Syrian politician
• Abdelmajid Bourebbou (born 1951), Algerian footballer
• Munshi Abdul Majid (born 1952), Afghan politician
• Abdelmajid Dolmy (born 1953), Moroccan footballer
• Abdelmadjid Mada (born 1953), Algerian runner
• Abdul Majid Khan (born 1953), Afghan held in Bagram
• Abdolmajid Pirzadeh Jahromi (1954–1976), Iranian political activist
• M. N. Abdul Majeed (born 1957), Sri Lankan politician
• Abdul Majid Giaka (born 1960), Libyan double-agent for the CIA
• Abdel Meguid Amir (born 1961), Egyptian basketball player
• Abdul-Majid al-Khoei (1962–2003), Iraqi Twelver cleric
• Abdelmajid Bouyboud (born 1966), Moroccan footballer
• Abdelmajid Dahoumane (born 1967), Algerian alleged terrorist
• Tunku Abdul Majid (born 1970), Tunku Bendahara of Johor
• Abdel Sattar Sabry Abdelmajid Mahmoud, or just Abdel Sattar Sabry (born 1974), Egyptian footballer
• Radhi Ben Abdelmajid Jaïdi, or just Radhi Jaïdi (born 1975), Tunisian footballer
• Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif (born 1976), Saudi held in Guantanamo
• Abdul Majid Muhammed (born 1978), Iranian held in Guantanamo
• Abdelmajid Oulmers (born 1978), Moroccan footballer
• Abdul Majid Mahmoud (born 1979), Pakistani held in Guantanamo
• Abdelmajid Eddine (born 1979), Moroccan footballer
• Abdelmadjid Tahraoui (born 1981), Algerian footballer
• Hussein 'Abd al-Majid (disappeared 1936), Iraqi, Saddam Hussein's father
• 'Abd al-Majid Nimer Zaghmout (died 2000), Palestinian imprisoned in Syria
• Chaudhry Abdul Majeed (died 2006), Pakistani nuclear physicist
• Abdul Madzhid (Dagestan rebel) (died 2008), leader in the Second Chechen War
• Abdul Majid (physicist), Pakistani astrophysicist
• Khalid ‘Abd al-Majid, Palestinian politician
• Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid, Pakistani politician
• Abdul Majid Khan (Pakistani diplomat)
• Abdulmajid Dostiev, Tajik diplomat
• Ch Abdul Majid, Pakistani Kashmiri politician
• S. M. Abdul Majid, Indian politician
• Abdelmajid Saleh, Lebanese politician
• Sheikh Humam Baqir Abdul Majeed Hamoudi, or just Humam Hamoudi, Iraqi politician
• Abdul Majid Samim, Afghan politician
• Abdul Majid Rouzi, Afghan soldier
• Adel Mohammed Abdel Magid Abdel Bari, known as Adel Abdel Bari, Egyptian alleged terrorist
• Abdul Majeed (cricketer), Pakistani cricketer

Females

• Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, or Iman (model), (born 1955), Somali-American model, actress and entrepreneur

Other

• Adhyapak Abdul Majid College, school in Bangladesh
• The March for Sultan Abdul-Mejid, Ottoman anthem
• Abdulmajid (music), instrumental piece written and performed by David Bowie and Brian Eno

See also

• Abdulmajidia, genus of Malayan plants

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. 

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