Muslim (name)

Muslim (Arabic: مُسْلِم muslim), also transliterated as Moslem or Müslüm ( Turkish ), is an Arabic male given name meaning 'pure, clear, immaculate, clean, taintless, straight, absolute', 'devout, god-fearing, pious, complaisant, obedient, submissive', 'virtuous, chaste, modest, blameless, innocent'.

It is also the proper name for the followers of the religion Islam and solely a Muslim name.

The name Muslim is a diminutive of the name Aslam (أَسْلَم aslam), which both names stems from the male noun-name Salaam.

It may refer to:

Moslem

 * Moslem Bahadori (1927–2022), Iranian medical scientist
 * Moslem Eskandar-Filabi (born 1944), Iranian wrestler
 * Moslem Al Freej (born 1988), Saudi footballer
 * Moslem Firoozabadi, Iranian footballer
 * Moslem Malakouti (1924–2014), Grand Ayatollah, Iranian Shiite cleric, Marja
 * Moslem Mesigar (born 1984), Iranian beach soccer player
 * Moslem Mojademi, Iranian footballer
 * Moslem Niadoost (born 1990), Iranian middle-distance runner
 * Moslem Oladghobad (born 1995), Iranian futsal player
 * Moslem Rostamiha (born 1992), Iranian futsal player
 * Moslem Uddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician

Muslim
Titular
 * Abu Muslim, full name Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (born 718/19 or 723/27, died 755), Persian general in service of the Abbasid dynasty, who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty
 * Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Nishapuri, d. 875 CE, hadith scholar
 * Muslim ibn Aqil, Islamic figure, son of Aqil ibn Abi Talib and a member of the clan of Bani Hashim, thus, he is a cousin of Hussain ibn Ali
 * Muslim ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Islamic figure, a central figure among the early collectors of sīra—biographies of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad and hadith literature
 * Muslim ibn Uqba, (pre-622–683) was a general of the Umayyad Caliphate during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I and his son and successor Yazid I
 * Muslim ibn Sa'id al-Kilabi, was governor of Khurasan for the Umayyad Caliphate in 723–724.

Given name Müslüm (Turkish or Turkic spelling)
 * Muslim Agaýew (born 1974), Turkmenistani professional football
 * Muslim Ahmad (born 1989), Malaysian footballer
 * Muslim Arogundade (born 1926), Nigerian athlete
 * Muslim Daliyev (born 1964), Russian footballer and football coach
 * Muslim Magomayev (composer) (1885–1937), Azerbaijani composer and conductor
 * Muslim Magomayev (musician) (1942–2008), dubbed the "King of Songs" and the "Soviet Sinatra", Soviet Azerbajiani baritone operatic pop singer
 * Muslim Mubarak (born 1985), Iraqi footballer
 * Muslim Salikhov, Russian martial artist
 * Muslim Sattarov (born 1965), Uzbekistani ice dancer
 * Muslim Yar (born 1999), German cricketer
 * Müslüm Aydoğan (born 1989), Turkish footballer
 * Müslüm Can (born 1975), Turkish footballer
 * Müslüm Doğan (born 1959), Turkish politician
 * Müslüm Gürses (1953–2013), Turkish folk singer
 * Müslüm Yelken (born 1988), Turkish footballer

Surname

 * Ahmed Abou Moslem (born 1981), Egyptian footballer
 * Azmi Muslim (born 1986), Malaysian footballer