Muslim Names

See also:  http://www.muslim-names.co.uk for a huge list of names and meanings.

The Muslim-Names Website is the one which awarded my Site www.dr-umar-azam.com with the very attractive 5-Star Award above.

See also these two links for meanings of Muslim names:

http://lightuponthetruth3.tripod.com/id34.html

http://www.bestforbabynames.com/  

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Letter from Dr Azam to UK National Newspapers

 

 

 

10 October 2008

 

 

Dear Editor,

 

I have recently been looking through the meanings of Islamic names and have found out that quite a few current British surnames actually have their origin in the Arabic language.

 

Most of us are aware that ‘orange’ [‘naranj’] and ‘gazelle’ [‘ghazala’] are from the Arabic.  But there are others: ‘Basil’ [as in ‘Basil Brush!’], means ‘brave’; ‘Jeff’ - ‘loveable’; ‘Qaiser’ [German, ‘Kaiser’] - ‘King’; Nu’man [Norman] – ‘blood’; Osman [more of a surname] – ‘Othman’ (the third Caliph of Islam). 

 

The list is even greater for female names and this should be pleasing for the Queen, Prince Charles – and Imran Khan!  There is: ‘Dina’ – ‘love’; ‘Eliza’ [itself from Hebrew] – ‘unique, precious’; ‘Janeeta’ [Jane, Janet] – ‘bliss, fertility’; ‘Janah’ [Jane, Janet] – ‘heart, soul’; ‘Jemimah’ – beautiful; ‘Kamille’ [Camilla] – ‘perfect’; ‘Mariya’ [Maria] – pure; ‘Nadia’ – hope and, finally, Zara – ‘as magnificent as the dawn’.  Of course, no list can be exhaustive.

 

In the current political climate of strained relations between extremist Muslims and the west, let us dwell on aspects of our common cultural heritage.  Readers may use a search engine and access files of name meanings in the ‘Islamic Names’ section of my Site: http://drumar-azam.weebly.com

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

Dr Umar Azam

 

 

 

Reply from The Daily Express on 15 October 2008

 

 

Dear Dr Azam,

 

Thank you for writing to the Daily Express, your letter will be considered for publication.  As you can appreciate, I receive an enormous amount of correspondence from readers.  Please do not be disappointed if your letter does not appear. 

 

I promise that we read every letter most carefully.  I very much appreciate the time and effort you have taken to send me your comments and I do hope you continue to enjoy reading the Daily Express in the future.

 

Kind regards,

 

Peter Hill

Editor