Abdul Hai () is a Muslim male 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 ''Hayy''. The name means "servant of the Living God", ''Al-Hayy'' 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.
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The letter ''a'' of the ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by ''e''. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Hai, Hay, Hayy or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
Notable people with the name include:
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Abdul Hai (UK politician) (born 1974 or 1975), British Bangladeshi acquitted of murdering
Richard Everitt, later a Labour councillor in Camden
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Abdul Hai (Bangladeshi politician), former MP for the Naogaon-5 constituency in Bangladesh
*Saʿīd Abdul-Hay ibn Dhaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardēzī, or just
Abu Saʿīd Gardēzī
Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd-al-Ḥayy ibn Żaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardīzī (), better known as Gardizi (), was an 11th-century Persian historian and official, who is notable for having written the ''Zayn al-akhbar'', one of the earliest history books ...
, (died ca. 1061), Persian historian
*Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui, known as
Bekhud Badayuni (1857–1912), Indian Urdu poet
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Saleh Abdel Hai (1896–1962), Egyptian singer
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Abdul Hai Habibi
Abdul-Hai Habibi (, ) (1910 – 9 May 1984) was a prominent Afghan historian for much of his lifetime as well as a member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan (Afghan Parliament) during the reign of King Zahir Shah. A Pashtun nationalist, bo ...
(1910–1984), Afghan scholar and historian
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Abdel hay Mashhour (born 1923), Egyptian academic administrator
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Mohammed Abdul-Hayy (1944–1989), Sudanese poet
*Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, known as
Daniel Moore (poet), (born 1940), American poet, essayist and librettist
*Asif Abdulhai Mulla, or just
Asif Mulla (born 1980), Indian-Canadian cricketer
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Abdul Hai Baloch, Pakistani politician
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Abdul Hai Neamati, Afghan politician
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Abdul Hai (Delhi cricketer), active 1934–1936
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Abdul Hai (Hyderabad cricketer), Hyderabad cricketer
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Muhammad Abdul Hye (1919–1969), Bengali litterateur and linguist
References
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Arabic-language masculine given names
Masculine given names