Abdul Hai
male given name
Abdul Hai (Arabic: عبد الحي, romanized: Abd al-Ḥayy) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Hayy. The name means "servant of the Living God", Al-Hayy 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 Hai, Hay, Hayy or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
Notable people with the name include:
Abdul Hai (UK politician) (born 1974 or 1975), British Bangladeshi acquitted of murdering Richard Everitt, later a Labour councillor in Camden
Abdul Hai (Bangladeshi politician), former MP for the Naogaon-5 constituency in Bangladesh
Abdul Hai (chief justice) (fl. late 1500s), Armenian Mir Adl in the Mughal Empire
Saʿīd Abdul-Hay ibn Dhaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardēzī, or just Abu Saʿīd Gardēzī, (died ca. 1061), Persian historian
Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui, known as Bekhud Badayuni (1857–1912), Indian Urdu poet
Saleh Abdel Hai (1896–1962), Egyptian singer
Abdul Hai Habibi (1910–1984), Afghan scholar and historian
Mohammed Abdul-Hayy (1944–1989), Sudanese poet
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, known as Daniel Moore (poet), (born 1940), American poet, essayist and librettist
Asif Abdulhai Mulla, or just Asif Mulla (born 1980), Indian-Canadian cricketer
Abdul Hai Baloch, Pakistani politician
Abdul Hai Neamati, Afghan politician
Abdul Hai (Delhi cricketer), active 1934–1936
Abdul Hai (Hyderabad cricketer), Hyderabad cricketer
Muhammad Abdul Hye (1919–1969), Bengali litterateur and linguist
Abdul Hai Arifi, Pakistani Islamic scholar (1898 – 1986)
Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi, Indian Islamic Hanafi scholar (1848–1886)
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