Yahya (name)

Yahya (Arabic: يحيى, romanized: Yaḥyā), also spelled Yehya, is an Arabic male given name. According to the Qur'anic narrative, it is an^[a] Arabic form of the given name John, originally Hebrew Yohanan (Yəhôḥānān יְהוֹחָנָן‎ "Yahu is gracious"), i.e. primarily John the Baptist, who is known as Yahya ibn Zakariyya in Islam, and is considered a prophet in Islam. For this reason, Yahya is a comparatively common name in the Muslim world. The related Biblical name of Jehiah (Yᵊḥîyâ יְחִיָּה "Yahu lives") has the Arabic form Yaḥiyyā يَحِيَّى.^[1], having the same Arabic consonantal text as the name Yahya does.

In Persian, Yahya is a title of address for a senior village or community elder.^{[citation needed]} It is also a common nickname for the 12th Imam.^{[citation needed]}

Mononym[]

• Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), Arabic medical writer known in medieval Europe as Johannes Serapion
• Yahya ibn Khalid (died 806), Vizier of the Persian Barmakids family
• Yahya ibn Umar ibn Yahya ibn Husayn ibn Zayd ibn Ali Zayn al-Abidin ibn Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Murtada,^[2] Alid imam
• Yahya ibn al-Walid, was an Umayyad prince and son of Umayyad caliph Al-Walid I (r. 705–715).
• Yahya ibn Yazid, was an Umayyad prince and son of Umayyad caliph Yazid II (r. 720–724).
• Abu Yahya Ibn al-Batriq (fl. 796–806), translator of Greek scientific texts
• Yahya ibn Asad, Samanid ruler of Shash (819–855) and Samarkand (851/852–855)
• Yahya ibn Muhammad (aka Yahya I), Idrisid ruler (848–864)
• Yahya ibn Yahya (died 874), sixth Idrisid ruler and sultan of Morocco
• Yahya of Antioch (Yahya ibn Sa'ïd), 11th-century Syrian chronicler
• Yahya (Zaragoza) (fl. 1021–1029), full name Yahya ibn al-Mundhir, 11th century ruler of Zaragoza
• Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi, 15th century Persian language writer from the Delhi Sultanate of India
• Sultan Yahya (1585–1649), son of Sultan Mehmed III, a Christian convert and a claimant to the Ottoman throne
• Yahya bey Dukagjini (1498–1582), Ottoman diwan poet

Given name[]

• Pediatrician and Neonatologist (born 1969), Canadian physician born in Iraq
• Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (born 1986), American actor
• Yahya Al-Shehri (born 1990), Saudi footballer
• Yahya Ayyash (1966–1996), member and chief bombmaker of Hamas
• Yahya El Hindi (born 1998), Lebanese footballer
• Yahya Goba, Yemeni-American terrorist suspect arrested and charged as part of the War on Terror together with the other members of the "Lackawanna Six"
• Yahya Golmohammadi (born 1971), Iranian footballer
• Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869–1948), imam of the Zaydis (1904) and king of Yemen (1926)
• Yahya Hassan (born 1995), Palestinian-Danish poet and politician
• Yahya Jammeh (born 1965), president of The Gambia
• Yahya Khan (1917–1980), former President of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff
• Yahya Rahim Safavi (born 1958), commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
• Mirza Yahya Nuri Subh-i Azal (1831–1912), Persian religious leader of Azali Bábism
• Yahya Petra of Kelantan (1917–1979), sixth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (roughly equivalent to King) of Malaysia
• Yahya ibn Muhammad (829-864), fifth Idrisid ruler of Morocco
• Yahya ibn Yahya, sixth Idrisid ruler Morocco
• Yahya ibn al-Qasim, eighth Idrisid ruler of Morocco
• Yahya ibn Idris ibn Umar, ninth Idrisid ruler of Morocco
• Yahya ibn Ibrahim, one of the founder of the Almoravid dynasty
• Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni, chieftain of Lamtuna and the first emir of the Almoravid
• Abu Zakariya Yahya, founder and the first sultan of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya

Surname[]

• Adel Yahya (born 1982), English Islamist
• Ahmad bin Yahya (1891–1962), Yemeni imam
• Ali Yahya (1947–2014), Israeli Arab diplomat
• Yaish Ibn Yahya (ca1115-ca1151 or 1196), Scholar, politician, military leader.
• Izz al-Din Yahya, 14th-century ruler of Satgaon, Bengal
• Mohammed Yahya (1901–1990), Pakistani politician
• Tahir Yahya (1916–1986), Iraqi politician
• Yahya Rahmani indian social Activist [1]
• Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq, Marinid emir at Fez
• Yaghmurasen ibn Zyan, also called Abu Yahya I, the first sultan of the Zayyanid dynasty at Tlemcen
• Abu Hafs Umar bin Yahya, Hafsid caliph of Ifriqiya
• Abu Yahya Abu Bakr as-Shahid, Hafsid caliph of Ifriqiya and a martyr

See also[]

• Yahyaabad (disambiguation)

References[]

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