Samdani is a Muslim surname of
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 ...
origin that is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Notable people with the name include:
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Abdur Rahman Samdani (1886–1925), Kashmiri diplomat and journalist
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Rajeeb Samdani (born 1974), Bangladeshi industrialist and founder of
Samdani Art Foundation
The Samdani Art Foundation is a private art foundation founded in 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh that aims to increase artistic engagement between the art and architecture of Bangladesh and the rest of the world.
It is best known for producing the bi- ...
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Khwaja Muhammad Ahmad Samdani (1932–2013), Pakistani judge
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Shakeel Ahmed Samdani
Shakeel Ahmed Samdani (21 June 1961 – 8 May 2021) was an Indian academic scholar who served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Aligarh Muslim University. He was an alumnus of the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University and the Aligarh Musl ...
(1961–2012), Indian academic
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Nurunnabi Samdani, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician
Ghulam Samdani
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Golam Samdani Quraishy (1929–1991), Bangladeshi poet and scholar
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Golam Samdani Fakir (born 1952), vice-chancellor of the
Green University of Bangladesh
See also
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Ghulam
Ghulam (, ) is an Arabic word meaning ''servant'', ''assistant'', ''boy'', or ''youth''. It is used to describe young servants in Jannah. It is also used to refer to slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid and to a lesser extent, Mughal e ...
{{human name disambiguation, Samdani
Arabic-language surnames
Bengali Muslim surnames