Abdul Ghani () or Abdulghani or Abdelghani or similar variants is a male

Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' Abd'', ''

al- (, also romanized as ''el-'', ''il-'', and ''l-'' as pronounced in some varieties of Arabic), is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (''ḥarf'') whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed definite. For ex ...

'' and ''Ghani''. The name means "servant of the All-sufficient", ''Al-Ghaniyy'' being one of the

names of God in the Qur'an Names of God in Islam () are 99 names that each contain Attributes of God in Islam, which are implied by the respective names. These names usually denote his praise, gratitude, commendation, glorification, magnification, perfect attributes, ...

, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. The letter ''a'' of the ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by ''u''. The last element may appear as ''Gani'', ''Ghany'' or in other ways, with the whole name subject to variable spacing and hyphenation. There is also the West African variant Abdul Ganiyu. It may refer to:

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Abdel Ghani al-Kikli Abdul Ghani Belkacem Khalifa Al-Kikli () known as Ghnewa Al-Kikli (; died 12 May 2025) was a Libyan commander and head of the Stability Support Apparatus affiliated with the Libyan Presidential Council. After the fall of the previous regime, h ...

(died 2025), Libyan commander * Abdul Ghani Saheb Saudagar (1843–1897), Nawab of Kholapur, Maharashtra, India *

Abdul Gani (soldier) Major Abdul Gani ( – 11 November 1957) was a Bengali military officer, who is considered to be the founder of the East Bengal Regiment. Early life Abdul Gani was born in Nagaish village of Brahmanpara Upazila, Comilla District, Bengal on 1 Dec ...

(1919–1957), Bengali military officer *

Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy (, 9 September 1921 – 7 June 2003) was an Egyptian Field Marshal and the former minister of defense of Egypt. He is considered one of the architects of the Yom Kippur War." Early life El Gamasy was born on 9 Sep ...

(1921–2003), Egyptian soldier *

Abdul Ghani Lone Abdul Gani Lone ( ; 6 May 1932 – 21 May 2002) was a Kashmiri-separatist political leader. Life Lone was born in Dard Harie in the Kralpora tehsil of the Kupwara district of the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu in British India into a ...

(1932–2002), Indian lawyer and politician *

Abdul Ghani Minhat Tan Sri Datuk Abdul Ghani bin Minhat ( Jawi: عبدالغني منحت; December 1935 – 28 September 2012) was an association football player who represented Selangor FA and Negeri Sembilan FA from the 1950s to the late 1960s. He played as ...

(1935-2012), Malaysian footballer *

Abdul Ghani Othman Abdul Ghani bin Othman (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: عبدالغاني بن عثمان; born 14 November 1946) served as the 14th List of Menteris Besar of Johor, Menteri Besar of Johor in Malaysia from 1995 to 2013. He is a member of the United Malay ...

(born 1946), politician in Johor, Malaysia *Abdelghani Djaadaoui, or just Abdel Djaadaoui (born 1947), Algerian footballer *

Abdul Ghani (Indian politician) Muhammad Abdul Ghani (born 7 January 1950) is an Politics of India, Indian politician and former jurist from West Bengal who has been serving as a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Sujapur Assembly constituency, Sujapur seat si ...

(born 1950), Indian politician *

Abdul Gani Patail Abdul Gani bin Patail (born 6 October 1955) is a Malaysian prosecutor. He was the Attorney General of Malaysia from 2002 to 2015, the first from Sabah to hold the position (hailing from Lahad Datu and was born in Lahad Datu district). In July ...

(born 1955), Malaysian lawyer *

Abdul Ghani Baradar Abdul Ghani Baradar (born 29 September 1963 known by the honorific ''mullah'') is an Afghan politician and religious leader who is the acting first Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan, deputy prime minister, alongside Abdul Salam Hanafi, of the ...

(born 1963), co-founder and political leader of the Afghan Taliban *

Abdul Ghani Kasuba Abdul Ghani Kasuba (21 December 1951 – 14 March 2025) was an Indonesian politician and the governor and lieutenant governor of North Maluku. Kasuba denoted South Halmahera Regency as a region he wanted to develop as the province's tourism hub ...

(1951-2025), Indonesian politician *

Abdelghani Mzoudi Abdelghani Mzoudi (; ; born 6 December 1972, in Marrakech, Morocco), also transliterated as Abdul Ghani Mzoudi, is an alleged member of al-Qaeda and an associate of Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the September 11 attacks who also served as th ...

(born 1972), Moroccan accused in Germany of terrorism * Abdul Ghani Rahman (born 1985), Malaysian footballer *

Abdul Ghani Ahmad Abd Ghani bin Ahmad (born 3 June 1970) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jerlun since November 2022. He served as Member of the Kedah State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) st ...

(born 1970), Malaysian politician * Abdul Ghani Azhari (1922-2023), Indian Islamic scholar *

Abdul Ghani (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa politician) Abdul Ghani is a Pakistani politician from Khyber District. He is currently serving as member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since February 2024. Career He contested the 2024 general elections as a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/I ...

, Pakistani politician *

Abdul Ghani (JUI-F politician) Al-Haj Maulana Abdul Ghani was a Pakistani religious and political leader who served as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) from 1997 to 1999 and was affiliated with the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F). He died in a road accident in Chaman ...

(died 2011), Pakistani religious and political leader

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Khan Abdul Ghani Khan Khan Abdul Ghani Khan (; – 15 March 1996) was a Pashtun Pashto language philosopher, poet, artist, writer and politician. He was a son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a prominent British Raj-era independence activist. Throughout his life as a poet ...

(1914–1996), Pashtun-nationalist poet *

Emad Abdul-Ghani Sabouni Emad Abdul-Ghani Sabouni () (born 1964 in Damascus) is the former Minister of Communications and Technology of Syria. Early life, education and career Sabouni was born in Damascus in 1964. He earned a Ph.D. degree from National Polytechnic Ins ...

(born 1964), Syrian politician *Hussein Abdulghani Sulaimani, or just

Hussein Sulaimani Hussein Omar Abdulghani Sulaimani (; born 21 January 1977) is a Saudi Arabian former professional footballer who played as a left-back in the Saudi Professional League. Club career Al-Ahli Abdulghani began his career at Al-Ahli, joining the y ...

(born 1977), Saudi footballer

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Khwaja Abdul Ghani Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Abdul Ghani (30 July 1813 – 24 August 1896) was the second Nawab of Dhaka and the first to assume the title of Nawab as hereditary, recognized by the British Raj. He introduced the panchayat system, gaslights, w ...

(1813–1896), Nawab of Dhaka *

Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani Mohammed ben Ahmed Abdelghani (18 March 1927 – 22 September 1996) () was the prime minister of Algeria under President Chadli Bendjedid from 8 March 1979 until 22 January 1984. Previously the position had been disestablished in 1963. He was an ...

(1927–1996), Algerian politician *

Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani ( ; 4 July 1939 – 22 August 2011) was a Yemeni politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997, under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Ghani was a member of the General People's Congress party. Ghani also ...

(1939–2011), Yemeni politician *

Magdi Abdelghani Magdi Abdelghani Sayed Ahmed (; born 27 July 1959) is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Playing career Abdelghani won 50 caps for Egypt, and at the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy he scored a penalty ...

(born 1959), Egyptian footballer *

Mohamed Abdulghani Mohamed Abdulghani (, ) is an Ethiopian economist and politician of the Somali ethnicity who is the President of the Somali Region Chamber of Commerce based in Jijiga, Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Eth ...

, Somali politician * Alaa Abdel-Ghany (born 1979), Egyptian footballer * Ahmed Abdel-Ghani (born 1981), Egyptian footballer *

Safwan Abdul-Ghani Safwan Abdul-Ghani Mohammed (; born September 9, 1983, in Iraq) is a former Iraqi football player who last played for Najaf in Iraq. He is the current manager of Al-Ramadi SC Player career Managerial career After many years as a TV Pundit, ...

(born 1983), Iraqi footballer * Amran Abdul Ghani (born 1973), Malaysian politician * Abdulrahman Abd Ghani, former President of the

Somali Region The Somali Region (, , ), also known as Soomaali Galbeed () and officially the Somali Regional State, is a Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in eastern Ethiopia. It is the largest region of Ethiopia. The state borders the Ethiopian regions ...

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*Abdul Ghani Afghan, former Guantanamo detainee (ISN 934). See

List of Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, but is compiled from various sources and is incomplete. In official documents, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) co ...

/Abdul Ghani * Abdul Ghani (Guantanamo detainee 943), Afghan, former Guantanamo detainee (ISN 943). See

/Abdul Ghani

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