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Fathallah

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ5437521
Source-derived summary

Fathallah, Fathalla or the Turkish variant Fethullah is a transliteration of the Arabic given name, فتح الله (Fatḥ Allāh), built from the Arabic words fath and Allah. It is one of many Arabic theophoric names, meaning "Allah's opening (God's opening)" or "God's conquest".

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Fathallah

Fathallah Oualalou (born 1942), Moroccan politician

Fathallah Saqqal (1898–1970), Syrian attorney, writer and government minister

Fathallah Sijilmassi (born 1966), Moroccan politician and economist

Fathallah al-Zani, Libyan politician

Fethullah

Fethullah Gülen (1941–2024), Turkish preacher, former imam, writer and political figure.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1898, 1970, 1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fathallah, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Fathallah” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.