Al-Farooq (also spelled El-Farouk, Al Farouk or Al-Faruq) may refer to:
People
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Umar
Umar ibn al-Khattab (; ), also spelled Omar, was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () and is regarded as a senior companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Mu ...
, Muslim caliph and companion of Muhammad, known as Al-Faruq ("Distinguisher between truth and false")
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Farooqi and
Farooq, surnames
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Al-Farouq Aminu, American basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers
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El-Farouk Khaki, Canadian lawyer
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Omar al-Faruq (1971–2006), Al-Qaeda member
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Farouk of Egypt
Farouk I (; ''Fārūq al-Awwal''; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936 and reigning until his ...
Places
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Al Farouk de Tombouctou, football (soccer) team in Mali
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Al Faruq (Riyadh), a neigbourhood of Rihadh, Saudi Arabia
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Al-Faruq Mosque, one of several mosques
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Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center, in Bloomington, Minnesota
Other uses
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''Al-Farooq'' (book), biography of Umar by Shibli Nomani
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Al-Farooq (title)
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Farouq Brigades, a unit of the Free Syrian Army in the Syrian civil war
See also
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Farooq (disambiguation)
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Furqan (disambiguation)
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