Abdul Rauf

Abdur Rauf (Arabic: عبد الرؤوف‎) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- 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 Muslim theophoric names.

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 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-Rauf, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Abd ar-Rauf. Alternative transliterations include Abdul Raouf and others, all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

Arts

• Abdurrauf Fitrat (1886–1938), Uzbek, cultural modernist active in Soviet Central Asia
• Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996), Bengali writer
• Abdul Rauf Anjum (1930–1992), Pakistani writer, poet, philosopher and translator
• Abdul-Rauf Khalid, Pakistani filmmaker

Politics / Religion

• Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, or just Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Palestinian leader
• Abdul Rauf al-Kasm (born 1932), Syrian politician
• Abdool Raouf Bundhun (born 1937), Vice President of Mauritius
• Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh (born 1939), Jordanian politician
• Munshi Abdur Rouf (1943–1971), soldier hero in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Feisal Abdul Rauf (born 1948), Arab-American imam and author
• Rana Abdul Rauf (born 1953), Pakistani politician
• Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh, or just Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (1960–2010), Palestinian, Hamas military commander
• Abdul Rauff Hibathul Hakeem, or just Rauff Hakeem (born 1960), Sri Lankan politician
• Abderraouf Jdey (born 1965), Tunisian-Canadian accused of terrorism
• Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammed Abu Al Qusin (born 1965), Libyan held in Guantanamo
• Abdul Rauf Khan (born 1969), Pakistani politician
• Abdul Rauf (anti-Taliban cleric), imam at the Herati Mosque in Kabul
• "Mullah" Abdul Rauf Aliza, also known as Abdul Rauf Khadim, a Taliban commander, allegedly tied to ISIS at time of his death
• Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi -- Speaker for Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga

Sports

• Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (formerly Chris Wayne Jackson) (born 1969), American basketball player
• Md Abdur Rouf (born 1974), Bangladeshi kabaddi player
• Abdur Rauf (cricketer) (born 1978), Pakistani cricketer
• Abderraouf Zarabi (born 1979), Algerian footballer
• Ahmed Abdel-Raouf (born 1986), Egyptian footballer
• Abdul Rauf (cricketer) (born 1998), Pakistani cricketer

Others

• Birshreshtha Munshi Abdur Rouf Library and Museum, Bangladesh