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It is identical in form and meaning to the Hebrew: עֵלִי, Eli, which goes back to the High Priest Eli in the biblical Books of Samuel. The Ali surname is especially common in Arab countries and the rest of the Muslim world. [1] Ali is the most common last name in Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, Kuwait and Libya. [2]
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Most Arabic names have meaning as ordinary adjectives and nouns, and are often aspirational of character. For example, Muhammad means 'Praiseworthy' and Ali means 'Exalted' or 'High'. The syntactic context will generally differentiate the name from the noun or adjective.
Ali ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: عَلِيُّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب, romanized: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; c. 600–661 CE) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.
Abd (Arabic) Abu Turab; Adl; After Saturday comes Sunday; Ahl al-Bayt; Ajam; Al-Farooq (title) Al-Insān al-Kāmil; Al-Quds (disambiguation) Al-Wakil; Alcalde; Alhamdulillah; Alids; Aljama; Allahu akbar; Allahumma; Allamah; Amanah (administrative division) Arabic compound; Arabic definite article; Arabic diacritics; Arabic language influence on ...
Alia Ali, American visual artist of Bosnian and Yemeni heritage; Alia Atkinson (born 1988), Jamaican swimmer and five-time Olympian; Alia Bano, British playwright of Pashtun origin; Alia Bhatt (born 1993), Indian actress; Alia Ghanem, birth name of Hamida al-Attas (born 1934), mother of Osama bin Laden; Alia al-Hussein (1948–1977), Queen of ...
Al-jāmi'a (Arabic: ٱلْجَامِعَة, lit. 'the inclusive') is a book that Twelver Shias believe was dictated by Muhammad to Ali. Ja'far al-Sadiq refers to it as a scroll (ṣaḥīfa) that is 70 cubits long and was dictated by the Islamic prophet Muhammad and written down by Ali. It is also known as Kitab Ali (lit. Book of Ali) in some ...
In Shi'a Islam, this verse spurred Muhammad to deliver an announcement at the Ghadir Khumm in 632 CE about his cousin and son-in-law 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, which in Shi'a theology signifies the divine investiture of 'Ali with the spiritual authority (Arabic: وَلاية, romanized: walaya) over Muslims. A few Sunni authors have similarly linked ...