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'''AbdurʻAbd Raufal-Raʼūf''' ([[ALA-LC romanization]] of {{lang-ar| عبد الرؤوف }}) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words ''[[Abd (Arabic)|Abdʻabd]]'', and ''[[al-]]Raʼūf'' and ''Rauf''. The name means "servant of the Lenient One", ''Ar-Ra'ūf'' being one of the [[names of God in the Qur'an]], which give rise to the [[List of Arabic theophoric names|Muslim theophoric names]].<ref name=ahmed>{{cite book| title=A Dictionary of Muslim Names| author=Salahuddin Ahmed| publisher = Hurst & Company| location=London| year=1999}}</ref><ref name=rahman>{{cite book| title=A Dictionary of Muslim Names| author= S. A. Rahman| publisher=Goodword Books| location=New Delhi| year=2001}}</ref> It means 'servant of the Lenient One'.

The letter ''a'' of the ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by ''u''. Because the letter ''r'' is a [[sun and moon letters|sun letter]], the letter ''l'' of the ''al-'' is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written in Arabic with letters corresponding to ''Abd al-RaufRa'uf'', the usual pronunciation corresponds to ''Abd ar-RaufRa'uf''. Alternative transliterations include ''Abdul Raouf'' and others, all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

*[[AbdurraufAbdurauf Fitrat]] (1886–1938), Uzbek, cultural modernist active in Soviet Central Asia

*[[Abdul Rauf Anjum]] (1930–1992), Pakistani writer, poet, philosopher and translator

==Politics /and Religionreligion==

*[[Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh]] (born 1939), Jordanian politician

* [[Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi]], --Uzbek Speakerlegislator forand Afghanistan'spolitician Wolesifrom JirgaAfghanistan

*[[Ahmed Abdel- Raouf]] (born 1986), Egyptian footballer

==OthersSee also==

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[[Category:Arabic-language masculine given names]]