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Abd-al-Rahman (Arabic: عبدالرحمن, Persian, Pashto script: عبدالرحمان) is a theophoric Arabic name that means "servant of the Most Merciful", al-Rahman being one of the 99 names of God. The name is also transliterated as Abdul Rahman, Abd-ar-Rahman Abdul-Rahman, Abd al-Rahman, Abdelrahman, Abdurrahman and others.

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• Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam - Assassin of Ali
• Abdurrahman Wahid (born 1940) - Fourth president of Indonesia
• Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi (? – 732), Arab leader in the Battle of Tours
• Abd ar-Rahman I (? - 788) - Founding dynastic prince of Spain under the Moors
• Abd ar-Rahman II (788 - 852) - Emir of Cordoba
• Abd-ar-Rahman III (912 - 961) - Emir and Caliph of Cordoba
• Abd ar-Rahman IV (? - 1017) - Caliph of Cordoba in the Umayyad dynasty in Spain
• Abd ar-Rahman V (? - 1024) - Proclaimed Caliph in 1023, and murdered in 1024 by a mob
• Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi (903 - 986), Persian astronomer
• Moulay Abd ar-Rahman (? - 1859), Sultan of Morocco
• Abdur Rahman Khan (1844-1901) Emir of Afghanistan
• Abdul Rahman bin Faisal (1850 - 1928), last ruler of the Second Saudi State
• Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam (1893 - 1976), first secretary-general of the Arab League
• Tunku Abdul Rahman (1903 - 1990), Prime Minister of Malaysia
• Abdul Rahman al-Iryani (1908 - 1998), President of Yemen
• Abdul Rahman Arif (born 1916), President of Iraq
• Abdul Rahman (Afghan minister) (? - 2002)
• Abdul Rahman Munif (1933 - 2004), novelist
• Abdul Rahman Yasin (born 1960), terrorist wanted in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
• Abdul Rahman (convert) (born 1965), Christian who faced the death penalty in 2006 for converting from Islam
• Saeed al-Ghamdi (?-2001) used the alias Abdul Rahman when contacting Al-Qaeda
• Abd Al-Rahman Abnudi
• Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti
• Abd al-Rahman ben Uqba
• Abd-al-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr
• Abd-al-Rahman ibn Khalid
• Abd-al-Rahman ibn Awf
• Abd-al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn Aslam

People with the Patronymic "Abd-al-Rahman" include:

• Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman (born c. 1941), current chief judge of one of the trials of Saddam Hussein
• Omar Abdel-Rahman (born 1938), militant Islamist leader convicted in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
• Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-al-Rahman ibn Faisal Al-Sa'ud

See also

• Rahman (name)
• List of Arabic theophoric names
• List of Arabic names

Names

Abd ar-Rahman | Abderramán | Abderraman | Abderramão | Abdul Rahman | Abd ar-Rahman

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