Abdul Hafeez

Abdul Hafiz or Abdul Hafeez (Arabic: عبد الحفيظ‎) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Hafiz. The name means "servant of the Guardian", Al-Hafīz being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.

The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by e. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Hafiz, Hafeez, Hafid, Hafeedh or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

• Abdul Hafeez, known as Senior Brigadier General of Pakistan ( 1954 ) Pakistani Social Activist
• Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah, known as Maulavi Barkatullah (1854–1927), Indian independence activist
• Abdelhafid of Morocco (1873–1937), Sultan of Morocco
• Abdul Hafeez (chemist) (1882-1964), Pakistani scientist
• Abdul Hafiz (VC) (1915-1944), Indian army soldier
• Osman Abdel Hafeez (1917–1958), Egyptian fencer
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar, or just Abdul Kardar (1925-1996), Pakistani cricketer
• Abdelhafid Boussouf (1926-1980), Algerian politician
• Abdul Hafiz (Lieutenant General) (born 1957), Lieutenant General of Bangladesh Army
• Abdul Hafiz Mansoor (born 1963), Afghan politician
• Abdelhafid Tasfaout (born 1969), Algerian footballer
• Yasser Abdel Hafez (born 1969), Egyptian novelist and journalist
• Sayed Abdel Hafeez (born 1977), Egyptian footballer
• Abdul Hafeez (English cricketer) (born 1977)
• Abdelhafid Benchabla (born 1986), Algerian boxer
• Abd-al-Hafid Mahmud al-Zulaytini, Libyan politician
• Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Pakistani politician
• Abdul Hafiz Pirzada, Pakistani lawyer and politician
• Abdul Hafeez (al Qaeda leader), see Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh