Alawi () means "follower of Ali" or "descendant of Ali", and is a common surname (and sometimes as a given name) in the

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. In Arab countries occupied by the

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, the name is transliterated as "Alawi". In Arab countries that were occupied by the

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, the name is transliterated as "Alaoui". In

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it is usually transliterated as "Alavi" or "Alvi" (see Alavi).

Alawi

Ahmad al-Alawi Ahmad al-Alawi (1869 – 14 July 1934), in full Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAlīwa, known as al-ʿAlāwī al-Mustaghānimī (), was an Algerian Sheikh (Sufism), Sufi Sheikh who founded his own Sufi order, called the ''Alawiyya' ...

Alawi bin Husain Alawi bin Husain (died 1816) was the Sultan of and on Anjouan island (in the Comoros Islands The Comoro Islands are a group of volcanic islands in the Mozambique Channel, an arm of the Indian Ocean lying between Madagascar and the African mainl ...

* Abdallah bin Alawi * Faisal Alawi * Majeed Al Alawi * Alawi Shukri *

Abdulaziz Fayez Al Alawi Abdulaziz Fayez Subait Khalifa Al Alawi () (born 17 June 1990) is an Emirati footballer commonly known as Azooz or Abdulaziz Fayez, who currently plays as a winger.

Badar Juma Subait Al Alawi Badar Juma Subait Al-Alawi (; born 6 December 1981), commonly known as Badar Juma, is an Omani former footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for Dhofar S.C.S.C. in the Oman Elite League. International career Badar was selected for the nat ...

Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His detainee ID number was 28. Guantanamo analysts estimated he was born in 1977, in Al Hudayd ...

Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Alawi ibn al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Aziz (1944–2004), also known as Muhammad ibn Alawi al-Maliki, () was one of the foremost traditional Sunni Islamic scholar of contemporary times from Saudi Arabia. He is considered to be the M ...

Ivana Alawi Mariam Sayed Sameer Marbella Al-Alawi (born December 25, 1996), known professionally as Ivana Alawi (), is a Filipino actress, model, and YouTuber. She is also the CEO of her own skincare brand called Ivana Skin. Regarded as one of the bigge ...

Alawi Mohammed Alsakkaf Alawi (), also transliterated as Alevi, Alevi, Alavi, Alvi, Alawid, or Alawite (), is an adjective denoting "of or related to Ali", the Prophet Muhammad's cousin. As a proper noun it is used by individuals, dynasties, places, and religious sects ...

Allawi

Allawi () is a family name mostly prevalent in Iraq. Notable people with the surname include: *

Ayad Allawi Ayad Allawi (; also spelled Iyad or Eyad; born 31 May 1944) is an Iraqi-British politician and neurologist. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to ...

(born 1945), former Prime Minister of the Iraqi Interim Government *

Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi (; born 1 July 1954) is an Iraqi politician who served as Minister of Communications in the Al Maliki government from May 2006 until August 2008 and from 2010 to 2012. Both times he resigned from his position in protest ...

(born 1954), former Iraqi Minister of Communications and Member of the Council of Representatives *

Ali Allawi Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi (Arabic: علي عبد الامير علاوي; born 1947) is an Iraqi politician and scholar. From May 2020 to August 2022, he ran as Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. He resigned from the post of finance ...

(born 1947), former Iraqi Defence and Finance minister In addition, Alawi and Ali names take Allawi as a nickname.

Alaoui

Mariem Alaoui Selsouli Mariem Alaoui Selsouli (; born 8 July 1984) is a Moroccan middle- and long-distance runner. She was born in Marrakech. At the 2009 World Athletics Final in Berlin, Selsouli withdrew from the 1500m final after failing a drug test for EPO. Sh ...

Zakaria Alaoui Zakaria Allaoui El-Achraf () (born 17 June 1966 in Marrakesh) is a retired Morocco, Moroccan football Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. He spent most of his career with Kawkab Marrakech, playing for the club between 1983 and 1997. B ...

* Suleiman al-Alaoui

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