Abd al-Salam (name)

Abd al-Salam (عبد السلام) is a male Muslim honorific or given name, built on the Arabic words Abd, al- and Salam. The name means "servant of the All-peaceable", as-Salam being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.

Because the letter s is a sun letter, the letter l of the al- is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written with letters corresponding to Abd al-Salam, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Abd as-Salam. Alternative transliterations include Abdul Salam, Abdul Salaam, Abdus Salam and others, all subject to variant spacing and hyphenation.

Notable people with the name include:

People

 * Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish al-Alami (1140–1227), Moroccan Sufi saint
 * Abd As-Salam Al-Asmar (1455–1575), Libyan Muslim saint
 * Abdul Salam al-Buseiri (born 1898), Libyan Foreign Minister
 * Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy (1899–1968), Lebanese actor
 * Moulvi Abdus Salam (1906–1999), Bangladeshi politician
 * Abdus Salam (editor) (1910–1977), Bangladesh journalist
 * Abdul Salam Sabrah (1912–2012), acting Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
 * Abdul-Salam Ojeili (1917–2006), Syrian novelist and politician
 * Abdul Salam Arif (1921–1966), president of Iraq
 * Abdelsalam al-Majali (1925–2023), Prime Minister of Jordan
 * Abdus Salam (Bengali Language Movement demonstrator) (1925–1952), died during the Bengali Language Movement demonstrations
 * Abdus Salam (newscaster) (1925–1992), Pakistani newscaster
 * Abdus Salam (1926–1996), Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate
 * Abdus Salaam, founder of Crepe Runner, a fast-food chain based in Sri Lanka
 * Abdesslam Yassine (1928–2012), leader of Moroccan Islamist organisation Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane
 * Belaid Abdessalam (1928–2020), Algerian politician
 * Rhadi Ben Abdesselam (1929–2000), Moroccan runner
 * Shadi Abdel Salam (1930–1986), Egyptian film director
 * Mohamed Abdul Salam Mahgoub (1935–2022), Egyptian politician
 * Abdul Salam Azimi (born 1936), Chief Justice of Afghanistan
 * Ali Abdussalam Treki, or Ali Treki, (1937–2015), Libyan diplomat
 * Abdulsalami Abubakar (born 1942), Nigerian politician
 * Abdus Salam (general) (born 1942), Bangladeshi politician and retired major general
 * Abdus Salam (politician) (1942–2011), Bangladeshi politician
 * Abdessalam Jalloud (born 1944), Prime Minister of Libya
 * Abdul Salam (politician) (1948 – 2017), Indian politician from Manipur
 * Abdul Salaam (American football) (born 1953), American football player for the New York Jets
 * Abdeslam Ahizoune (born 1955), Moroccan businessman
 * Abdul Salam Rocketi (born 1958), Taliban commander who shot down a Soviet helicopter with a rocket propelled grenade, and who ran for office in 2005
 * Abdussalam Puthige (born 1964), Indian journalist
 * Abdulsalam Abdullah (born 1965), Iraqi politician
 * Abd al-Salam Ali al-Hila (born 1968), a Yemeni citizen, a Guantanamo detainee ID # 1463
 * Abdul Salam Zaeef (born 1968), Afghan ambassador to Pakistan
 * Abdul Salam Hanafi (born 1969), Taliban leader
 * Abdoul Salam Sow (born 1970), Guinean football player
 * Ashraf Salim Abd Al Salam Sultan (born 1971), Libyan Guantanamo detainee ID # 263
 * Samir Abdussalam Aboud, known as Samir Aboud (born 1972), Libyan footballer
 * Kamal Abdulsalam (born 1973), Libyan-Qatari bodybuilder
 * Abdoul Salem Thiam, known as Abdoul Thiam, (born 1976), German footballer
 * Abdulsalam Haykal (born 1978), Syrian entrepreneur and social activist
 * Abdulsalam Al Gadabi (born 1978), Yemeni swimmer
 * Abdeslam Ouaddou (born 1978), Moroccan footballer
 * Chérif Abdeslam (born 1978), Algerian footballer
 * Abdulsalaam Jumaa (born 1979), UAR footballer
 * Nader Abdussalam Al Tarhouni (born 1979), Libyan footballer
 * Abdessalem Arous (born 1979), Tunisian judoka
 * Abdeslam Akouzar (born 1982), Moroccan-French footballer
 * Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry (born 1984), citizen of Saudi Arabia, Guantanamo detainee ID # 132
 * Abdessalam Benjelloun (born 1985), Moroccan footballer
 * Salah Abdeslam (born 1989), Belgian-born French terrorism suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks
 * Abdusalam Abubakar (born c. 1990), Somali-Irish scientist
 * Abdusalam Abas Ibrahim, full name of Abdus Ibrahim (born 1991), Ethiopian-American soccer player
 * Abudushalamu Abudurexiti (born 1996), (ULY: Abdusalam Abdurëshit) Chinese professional basketball player of the Uyghur ethnic group
 * Abdul Salam Mumuni, Ghanaian film maker
 * Abdeslam Boulaich, Moroccan story-teller
 * Abdesalam Kames, Libyan footballer
 * Mehdat Abdul Salam Shabana, director of Konsojaya Trading Company, alleged terrorist front organization based in Kuala Lumpur
 * Abdul Salaam Alizai, former member of the Taliban who defected to the government in 2007
 * Abdul Salam (jurist), Chief Justice of the Taliban's Supreme Court
 * Ibrahim Abdeslam, one of the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks