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Classical Arabic names

Arabic names that Muslim families have long given their children, beyond the names of the Qurʾān, the prophets and the Companions: words for light and rain, gazelles and gardens, and the ʿAbd names joined to a name of Allah.

Each name’s Arabic is copied from the dictionary entry, a biographical dictionary or a ḥadīth page, and its meaning from Lisān al-ʿArab or Tāj al-ʿArūs, with the volume and page. Where we found an early bearer, we name them; most of these names are simply good Arabic words.

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