Ayub (

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

: ايّوب ''Ayūb'', commonly written ايوب) is the

name of the

Abrahamic The term Abrahamic religions is used to group together monotheistic religions revering the Biblical figure Abraham, namely Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The religions share doctrinal, historical, and geographic overlap that contrasts them wit ...

prophet

Job Work, labor (labour in Commonwealth English), occupation or job is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and desires of themselves, other people, or organizations. In the context of economics, work can be seen as the huma ...

. Here it refers to the Islamic prophet which is mentioned in the

Quran The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...

, see

Job in Islam Job () is known as a prophet in Islam and is mentioned in the Quran. Job's story in Islam is parallel to the Hebrew Bible's story, although the main emphasis is on Job remaining steadfast to God; there is no mention of Job's discussions with fri ...

. The spread of the name among Muslims is partly due to the fame of

Saladin Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, h ...

, founder of the

Ayyubid dynasty The Ayyubid dynasty (), also known as the Ayyubid Sultanate, was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultan of Egypt, Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid Caliphate of Egyp ...

, whose name in Arabic is ''Salạ̄hu d-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayūb''.

Other people with this given name

Abu Ayyub al-Ansari Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (, , died c. 674) — born Khalid ibn Zayd ibn Kulayb ibn Tha'laba () in Yathrib — was from the tribe of Banu Najjar, and a close companion (Arabic: الصحابه, ''sahaba'') and the standard-bearer of the Prophets and mes ...

(died 674), a companion (''sahaba'') of Muhammad * Ayub Ali (1919-1995), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist * Ayub Ali Master (1880-1980), British-Bangladeshi social reformer, politician and entrepreneur *

Ayub Shah Durrani Ayub Shah Durrani (Persian language, Persian/Pashto: ), also known as Ayub Shah Abdali, son of Timur Shah Durrani, ruled Afghanistan from 1819 to 1823. He was an Afghans, Afghan from the Pashtuns, Pashtun ethnic group. He was the second oldest ...

(died 1837), Afghan ruler *

Ayub Khan Mohammad Ayub Khan (14 May 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Pakistani military dictator who served as the second president of Pakistan from 1958 until his resignation on 1969. He was the first native commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army, se ...

(1907-1974), second President of Pakistan * Ayub Afridi (died 2009), Pakistani drug lord turned politician *

Ayub Ommaya Ayub Khan Ommaya, MD, ScD (hc), FRCS, FACS (1930–2008) was a Pakistani American neurosurgeon and the inventor of the Ommaya reservoir. The reservoir is used to provide chemotherapy directly to the tumor site for brain tumors. Ommaya was also a ...

(1930-2008), a Pakistani neurosurgeon *

Ayub Shah Bukhari Ayub Shah Bukhari was a Sufi master in Gulshan-e-Maymar neighbourhood of Gadap Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The Sufi shrine of Ayub Shah Bukhari is also located in Gulshan-e-Maymar. On January 6, 2014, six corpses were recovered near the shrin ...

, Pakistani Sufi * Ayub Thakur (1948-2004), Kashmiri freedom activist * Master Ayub, a Pakistani teacher who runs an open air, free of cost, school in Islamabad since 1986 * Ayub Khan Din (born 1961), British-Pakistani actor and writer *

Ayub Bachchu Ayub Bachchu (; 16 August 1962 – 18 October 2018) was a Bangladeshi rock guitarist, composer, singer and songwriter, who was the founder of the Bangladeshi rock band Love Runs Blind and earned success as the lead singer and the lead guitarist ...

(1962-2018), Bangladeshi rock musician *

Ayub Khan (actor) Ayub Khan (born 23 February 1969) is an Indian film and television actor. He is the nephew of the legendary actor Dilip Kumar. Personal life Khan was born to former 1950s actress Begum Para and actor Nasir Khan, brother to Bollywood supersta ...

(born 1969), Indian actor * Ayub Daud (born 1990), Somali footballer * Ayub Masika (born 1992), Kenyan footballer

Places

* Ayub National Park

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