Abd al-Fattāḥ (

ALA-LC romanization ALA-LC (American Library AssociationLibrary of Congress) is a set of standards for romanization, the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin script. Applications The system is used to represent bibliographic information by ...

of ) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Fattāḥ'', 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. People with this name include:

Given name

* Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda * Abd al-Fattah Fumani * Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha (1876–1951), Egyptian politician *Abdelfattah Amr, also known as F. D. Amr Bey (1910–after 1972), Egyptian diplomat and squash player *

Abdul Fattah Ismail Abdul Fattah Ismail Ali Al-Jawfi (; 28 July 1939 – 13 January 1986) was a Yemeni Marxist politician and revolutionary who was the ''de facto'' leader of South Yemen from 1978 to 1980 after the overthrow of President Salim Rubaya Ali. He served ...

(1939–1986), Yemeni politician *

Abdul Fatah Younis Abdul Fatah Younis Al-Obeidi (; , sometimes transliterated ''Fattah Younis'' or ''Fattah Younes'' or ''Fatah Younes''; 1944 – 28 July 2011) was a Libyan military officer and politician. He served as Libya's interior minister until his resignat ...

(1944–2011), Libyan soldier and politician * Abdelfattah Kilito (born 1945), Moroccan writer *

Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah (; born in 1949) is a Dutch actor raised in France who has Moroccan-Yemenite roots. He is usually typecast to play an old Moroccan man, either an imam or a grandfather. He lives in Amsterdam, is married and has a daughter a ...

(born 1949), Dutch actor *

Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (; born 1962) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and educator. He is a member of Egypt's third generation of classical composers. Biography Abdelfattah was born in Giza. He graduated with a ...

(born 1962), Egyptian composer *

Abdulfatah Ahmed Abdulfatah Ahmed (born 29 December 1963) is a Nigerian banker and politician. He is the former Governor of Kwara State. Background Ahmed was born on 29 December 1963 in Share, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. He attended Gove ...

(born 1963), Nigerian banker and politician *

Essam Abd El Fatah Essam Abdel-Fatah () (born December 30, 1965) is an Egyptian football (soccer) referee. Abd El Fatah has been a referee since 2001; his first international game was between Morocco and Sierra Leone in 2003. He was the referee for the match between ...

(born 1965), Egyptian football referee *

Mohamed Abdelfatah Mohamed Abdelfatah (Arabic: محمد عبد الفتاح, born February 4, 1978, in Suez, Egypt), commonly known by his nickname "Bogy" (Arabic: بوجى), is a retired Egyptian Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in 76 kg, 84 kg, and 96 k ...

(born 1978), Egyptian wrestler * Hassan Abdel Fattah (born 1982), Jordanian footballer *Karim Adel Abdel Fatah (born 1982), Egyptian footballer * Abdul Fattah Al Agha (born 1984), Syrian footballer * Abdoul-Fatah Mustafa (born 1984), Cameroonian footballer * Abdul Fatawu Dauda (born 1985), Ghanaian footballer * Basel Abdoulfattakh (born 1990), Russian footballer * Abdoul Fatah (Malagasy politician) *

Alaa Abd El-Fatah Alaa Ahmed Seif al Islam Abd El-Fattah (, ), known professionally as Alaa Abd El-Fattah (), is an Egyptian-British blogger, software developer, and political activist. He has been active in developing Arabic-language versions of software and pl ...

, Egyptian blogger and activist * Samih Abdel Fattah Iskandar * Samir Abdel Fattah, Yemeni short story writer, novelist and playwright *

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. After the 2011 Egyptian revolution and 201 ...

, Egyptian military officer and politician *

Abdolfattah Soltani Abdolfattah Soltani (; born 2 November 1953) is an Iranian human rights lawyer and spokesman for the Defenders of Human Rights Center. He co-founded the group with Mohammad Seifzadeh and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi. Along with Ebadi, ...

, Iranian human rights lawyer *Abdul-Fattah

Abu-Abdullah Adelabu Abdul-Fattah Abu-Abdullah Taiye Ejire Adelabu () or simply Sheikh Adelabu (), also known as Al-Afriqi () or Shaykh Al-Afriqi () is a Nigerian-British Muslim scholar, writer, academic, publisher and cleric from Osogbo, capital city of Osun State, ...

, Nigerian scholar of Islamic and Arabic Studies, linguist, jurist and lecturer * Abdul Fatah (19252010), Indonesian military officer and politician

Surname

Randa Abdel-Fattah Randa Abdel-Fattah (; born 1979) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is an advocate for Palestinian people and human rights in general, and much of her work focuses on identity and what it means to be Muslim in Australia. H ...

(born 1979), Australian writer * Israa Abdel Fatah, (born 1978), Egyptian internet activist and blogger

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