Abdul Basit

Abdul Basit (Arabic: عبد الباسط) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Basit. The name means "servant of the Expander", Al-Bāsit 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 Basit, Basith, Basset, Bas, Baz or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to::

Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927–1988), Egyptian Qari (reciter of the Qur-an)
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (1952–2012), Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing
Abdulbaset Sieda (born 1956), Kurdish-Syrian academic and politician
Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab, known as Amr Diab (born 1961), Egyptian singer
Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim, possible original name of Ramzi Yousef (born 1967), Pakistani convicted for terrorism
Abdul Basith (volleyball) (died 1991), Indian volleyball player
Abdul Basit, Ghanaian footballer
Abdel Basset Turki, Iraqi politician
Hafiz Abdul Basit, Pakistani held in extrajudicial detention
Abdul Basit (cricketer) (born 2003), Afghan cricketer
Abdul Baset al-Sarout (1992-2019), Syrian footballer turned rebel commander

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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