Arabic Personal Names from the Futuwwah
by Mustapha al-Muhaddith ibn al-Saqaat
edited by Arval Benicoeur and Avelina Keyes
The following lists contain first names and surnames that I have seen in
the Isnad to al-Sulami's Futuwwah, composed before the early
11th century (Futuwwah or The Book of Sufi Chivalry,
Muhamed ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami, trans. Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi
al-Halveti, pub. Inner Traditions International Inc., NY 1983). The
transliteration system is Shaykh al-Halveti's and does not distinguish
between certain English consonants and Arabic consonants which have no
English equivalent. I have made no attempt to translate the surnames.
Al- is "the", ibn is "son of", abu is "father of".
Editors' note: This article was originally published in the Herald's
Proceedings of the Caidan Heraldic Symposium (SCA Inc., 1989) under the
title Arabic Personal Names from the Futuwwah. It has been re-typed
from the proceedings. One names appeared in the proceedings as
Dubays?. As we are not sure whether the question mark is an error
or an unexplained notation, we have chosen to omit this name.
Given names
| Abu Ahmad |
| Abu Badr Ahmad |
| Abu Bakr |
| Abu Bashir |
| Abu Dawud |
| Abu Habib |
| Abu Hamzah |
| Abu Hassan |
| Abu Hazim |
| Abu Hurayrah |
| Abu Idris |
| Abu Ishaq |
| Abu Ja`far |
| Abu Jurayj |
| Abu Kathir |
| Abu Khuzaymah Ilban `Isa |
| Abu Muhammad |
| Abu Nasr |
| Abu Ndrah |
| Abu Rifa`ah |
| Abu Sahl |
| Abu Sa`id |
| Abu Shaybah |
| Abu Shu`ayb |
| Abu Tayyib |
| Abu Yazid |
| Abu `Abdullah |
| Abu `Abdullah Muhammad |
| Abu `Ali |
| Abu `Amr |
| Abu `Amr Muhammad |
| Abu `Ubaydah |
| Abu `Umayr `Isa |
| Abu `Uthman |
| Abul-`Abbas |
| Abul-Khayr |
| Abul-Asshab |
| Abul-Aswad |
| Abul-Darda' Hashim |
| Abul-Dunya |
| Abul-Fadl |
| Abul-Fadl Nadr |
| Abul-Faraj |
| Abul-Fath |
| Abul-Hasan |
| Abul-Husayn |
| Abul-Hawari |
| Abul-Juwayriyyah |
| Abul-Mughayyis |
| Abul-Musawir |
| Abul-Qasim |
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| Abul-Tayyib |
| Abul-Ward |
| Abul-Zinad |
| Abul-`Abbas |
| Ahmad |
| Ahyad |
| Anas |
| Aws |
| Ayyub |
| Bakr |
| Baqiyyah |
| Bashir |
| Bashhar |
| Battah |
| Baaya` |
| Bishr |
| Buwayh |
| Dawud |
| Dhu Nun |
| Dinar |
| Farqad |
| Habushun |
| Hamdan |
| Hamdun |
| Hamid |
| Harun |
| Hashim |
| Hassan |
| Hilal |
| Hisham |
| Hurmuz |
| Husayn |
| Ibrahim |
| Isfandiyar |
| Ishandiyar |
| Ishaq |
| Isma`il |
| Ja`far |
| Jabir |
| Jarir |
| Jawsa |
| Kathir |
| Kaysan |
| Khalid |
| Khalidi |
| Khalaf |
| Khashram |
| Khayr |
| Khuzaymah |
| Kulayb |
| Ma`mar |
|
| Makhid |
| Makki |
| Malik |
| Mansur |
| Marzuq |
| Masruq |
| Matar |
| Maymun |
| Mihran |
| Miqsam |
| Mu`awiyah |
| Mu`in |
| Muhammad |
| Mujahid |
| Mukhallad |
| Musa |
| Musaddid |
| Musqsim |
| Mu`ammar |
| Nafi` |
| Nasr |
| Nasir |
| Nusayr |
| Qabisah |
| Qtatdah |
| Qatn |
| Quraysh |
| Qutaybah |
| Rabi' |
| Raja' |
| Rashid |
| Rumh |
| Sa`d |
| Sa`id |
| Sabih |
| Safwan |
| Sahl |
| Salih |
| Salim |
| Salm |
| Shadhan |
| Shahqawiyyah |
| Shaawiyyah |
| Shayban |
| Shiruyah |
| Shu`bah |
| Shumayl |
| Sufyan |
| Sulaym |
| Sulayman |
| Surahbil |
|
| Suwayd |
| Tahir |
| Talq |
| Thabit |
| Thawr |
| Uways |
| Wadih |
| Wathilah |
| Ya`la |
| Ya`qub |
| Yahya |
| Yazdan |
| Yazid |
| Yusuf |
| Zakariyya |
| Zayd |
| Ziyad |
| `A'ishah |
| `A'ishah Yunus |
| `Abbad |
| `Abdan |
| `Abdun |
| `Abdus |
| `Abdul-Hamid |
| `Abdul-Jalil |
| `Abdul-Karim |
| `Abdul-Malik |
| `Abdul-Rahman |
| `Abdul-Razzaq |
| `Abdul-Wahid |
| `Abdul-Yaqzan |
| `Abdul-`Aziz |
| `Abdullah |
| `Alawiyyah |
| `Ali |
| `Amir |
| `Amr |
| `Arafah |
| `Ata' |
| `Atiyyah |
| `Imran |
| `Isa |
| `Ubaydullah |
| `Ukrumah |
| `Umar |
| `Umayr |
| `Umayyah |
| `Uqbah |
| `Urwah |
| `Uthman |
|
Surnames
| `Askari |
| al-Abzari |
| al-Adami |
| al-Ansari |
| al-Anmati |
| al-Arghiyani |
| al-Asamm |
| al-Atrabulusi |
| al-Awza`i |
| al-Baghdadi |
| al-Bashani |
| al-Basri |
| al-Balhki |
| al-Bistami |
| al-Dabbagh |
| al-Dabili |
| al-Damghani |
| al-Diwanji |
| al-Duhli |
| al-Duri |
| al-Farghani |
| al-Fadl |
| al-Fahmi |
| al-Faqih |
| al-Hassan |
| al-Hashimi |
| al-Haytham |
| al-Hilali |
| al-Husayn |
| al-Jizi |
| al-Junayd |
| al-Jurjani |
| al-Jurayri |
| al-Juwayri |
| al-Katib |
| al-Kattani |
| al-Khalladi |
| al-Khallal |
| al-Khallali |
| al-Kahsib |
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| al-Khashshab |
| al-Khattab |
| al-Khawalani |
| al-Khawwas |
| al-Khayyat |
| al-Khirqani |
| al-Khudria |
| al-Khuldi |
| al-Musayyab |
| al-Muthanna |
| al-Mu`afa |
| al-Nadr |
| al-Hakh`i |
| al-Naqid |
| al-Nasrabadhi |
| al-Nassaj |
| al-Nawfali |
| al-Nisaburi |
| al-Nisawi |
| al-Qadi |
| al-Qannad |
| al-Qazwini |
| al-Qurashi |
| al-Qasim |
| al-Ra`is |
| al-Rab`i |
| al-Ramli |
| al-Raqqi |
| al-Rasibi |
| al-Rashid |
| al-Razi |
| al-Rida |
| al-Suri |
| al-Taflisi |
| al-Tahrani |
| al-Tamstani |
| al-Tayyib |
| al-Thairti |
| al-Thaqafi |
| al-Ushnanai |
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| al-Walid |
| al-Warraq |
| al-Warthani |
| al-Waziri |
| al-Zuhri |
| al-`Abbas |
| al-`Abbasi |
| al-`Akki |
| al-`Ala' |
| al-`Aquli |
| al-`Asqalani |
| al-`Attar |
| al-`Aziz |
| al-`Ukbari |
| al-`Uthmani |
| al-`Usmi |
| al-Farisi |
| al-Farsi |
| al-Fihri |
| al-Firyabi |
| al-Fudayl |
| al-Ghudari |
| al-Hafiz |
| al-Hajjaj |
| al-Hajjaji |
| al-Hamdani |
| al-Hanzali |
| al-Harawi |
| al-Harbi |
| al-Harith |
| al-Harrani |
| al-Hasan |
| al-Kindi |
| al-Kudri |
| al-Mada'ini |
| al-Madini |
| al-Mahdi |
| al-Makhrami |
| al-Mansur |
| al-Marhani |
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| al-Mari' |
| al-Maruzi |
| al-Marzuban |
| al-Mihlabi |
| al-Mubarak |
| al-Mufid |
| al-Mundakar |
| al-Muqri' |
| al-Sa`igh |
| al-Safaral-Saji |
| al-Sakhtyani |
| al-Salt |
| al-Samh |
| al-Sarraj |
| al-Sa`igh |
| al-Shashi |
| al-Shaybani |
| al-Shirazisiddiq |
| al-Simidi |
| al-Simsar |
| al-Sufi |
| al-Sulami |
| ibn al-A`rabi |
| ibn `Abbas |
| ibn `Alawiyyah |
| ibn Hujayrah |
| ibn Luhay`ah |
| ibn Muslim |
| ibn `Uthman |
| ibn `Ulathah |
| ibn `Umar |
| ibn `Uyaynah |
| ibn Yazdanyar |
| ibn `Isam |
| ibn Masruq |
| ibn Yazdanyar |
| ibn al-Anbari |
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Layout, editting, and publishing by Avelina Keyes &
Arval Benicoeur.