Ahmad

Ahmad (Arabic أحمد, DMG Ahmad, highly praised ') is according to the Koran (Sura 61:6 ) the name of an announced ambassador of Jesus Christ, who is identified by the Muslims with the Prophet Mohammed. Based on this Ahmad is also a popular male first name and surname become among Muslims.

Linguistic

The word comes from the Arabic root hmd " praise, praise ", after the name of Muhammad, Hamid and Mahmūd be formed. Ahmad is elative Hamid ( " commendable " ) or mahmud ( " praise " ) and is therefore " highly laudable " with or " highly praised " translatable.

Occurrence in the Quran

The crucial point is sura 61:6, where it says:

" When Jesus, son of Mary said: " O children of Israel, behold, I am sent unto you from God to confirm what was the law before me, and to announce an apostle who comes after me, whose name Ahmad is (wa - smu -hu Ahmad ) " "

It is unclear whether Ahmad, " highly laudable " to be understood as the name, Ahmad, or as an adjective. William Montgomery Watt has pointed out the rarity of this name at the time of Muhammad. In pre-Islamic Arabic, the word merely assembled as part of God predications appear. Therefore, a adjectival understanding preference will be given in many translations of the Koran. Rudi Paret translated, for example, the passage in question with: " and to announce an apostle with a highly commendable name." Evidence for the use as a personal name among Muslims find themselves repeatedly until 740.

The identification with the Paraclete

In later centuries, Muslim exegetes presented, such as Muqatil ibn Ishaaq and Ibn Sulaimān (both died 767 ), a compound between Surah 61:6 and in the New Testament John 14:26 ELB, ELB Jn 15:26, Jn 16.7 ELB announced Paraclete (Greek parakletos, Syrian menaḥḥemānā, ar al - fāraqlīṭ; . ger eg translatable as " counsel " ) ago. Other biblical passages that contain translated into Arabic derivatives of hmd were interpreted in this sense. The identification of Muhammad and proclaimed in the New Testament Paraclete served the Muslims as an argument that the Quranic statement about Jesus agreed and this was the coming of Mohammed already predicted.

Substituting the from about 772 AD multiplefunction identification of Muhammad and Paraclete ahead, shows that Ahmad was considered from this time as a synonym for Mohammed. So it handed down explicitly, for example, Wahb ibn already Munabbih († 728 ): the name of the Prophet Muḥammad and Aḥmad was.

Bearers of the name

First name

• Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Islamic legal scholar in Baghdad ( 780-855 )
• Ahmad ibn Said, Imam of Oman and the founder of Said Dynasty (1746-1783)
• Ahmad ibn Tulun, ruler of the Tulunids in Egypt ( 868-884 )
• Ahmad ibn Yahya, King of Yemen (1948-1962)
• Ahmad al - Ahsā'ī (1753-1826), founder of the Schaichismus
• Ahmad al - Arudsch, Sheikh Saadi of Morocco (1517-1544)
• Ahmad I. al -Husayn, the Bey Husainiden in Tunisia (1837-1855)
• Ahmad Al- Jaber Al -Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (1921-1950)
• Ahmad al - Mansur, Sultan of the Saadi in Morocco (1578-1603)
• Ahmad Jamal ( born 1930 ), African-American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
• Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (1932-2014), Sierra Leonean politician and President
• Ahmad Wali Karzai (1961-2011), Afghan politician
• Ahmad Zia Massoud ( b. 1956 ), Afghan politician
• Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953-2001), Afghan National Hero
• Achmad Mochtar (1882-1945), Indonesian molecular biologist
• Ahmad Nazif ( born 1952 ), Egyptian politician
• Ahmad Shafiq ( born 1941 ), Egyptian politician

Family name

• Abbas Ahmad, Egyptian Ringer
• Abu Ibrahim Ahmad († 863), Emir of Aghlabids
• Abu al - Abbas Ahmad († 1549), Sultan of the Wattasids
• Ahmad Ahmad El- Amawy ( born 1932 ), Egyptian politician
• Ajib Ahmad (1947-2011), Malaysian politician
• Akbar Ahmad ( b. 1948 ), Indian politician (BSP )
• Arwa bint Ahmad (1050-1138), Queen of the Sulaihiden
• Ateeq Ahmad (born 1962 ), Indian politician ( SP)
• Azzam al -Ahmad ( born 1948 ), Palestinian politicians ( Fatah )
• Bashir Ahmad ( hockey player), Pakistani hockey player
• Bashir Ahmad ( politician ) ( 1940-2009 ), Scottish politician
• Bashir Ahmad (musician ) ( born 1940 ), Bangladeshi musicians
• Bashir Ahmad ( athlete ) ( born 1967), Pakistani hurdler and sprinter
• Daud Ahmad ( b. 1968 ), Indian politician (BSP )
• Faiz Ahmad (1946-1986), Afghan politician, founder of the Maoist Afghanistan Liberation Organization
• Fawaz Al -Ahmad (born 1969 ), Kuwaiti football player
• Ghyasuddin Ahmad (* 1901), Indian politician ( Congress)
• Ibrahim Ahmad ( b. 1961 ), Qatari footballer
• Imteyaz Ahmad (* 1912), Indian politician ( Congress)
• Jalal Al -e Ahmad (1923-1969), Iranian writer, translator
• Jamil Ahmad ( born 1933), Pakistani author
• Joe Ahmad ( b. 1942 ), British hockey player
• Kajal Ahmad (born 1967 ), Iraqi- Kurdish author
• Mahmoud Ahmad, General in Sudan
• Maqsood Ahmad (born 1976 ), Pakistani Sprinter
• Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), founder of the Ahmadiyya
• Mirza Ahmad Masrur (* 1950), Khilafat ul- Massih V, Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
• Mirza Nasir Ahmad (1909-1982), Khilafat ul- Massih III.
• Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928-2003), Khilafat ul- Massih IV
• Mohammad Asrar Ahmad ( b. 1908 ), Indian politician ( Congress)
• Mohd Muslim Ahmad (* 1989), Malaysian football player
• Muhammad Ahmad ( The Mahdi also; 1844-1895 ), Sudanese insurgents
• Muhammad Amin Muhammad Ahmad ( b. 1936 ), Kurdish politicians
• Al- Mukarram Ahmad, son of the founder of the dynasty - Sulayhiden, Alī bin Muhammad al - Ṣulayḥī
• Nasir Ahmad ( hockey player ) ( born 1932 ), Pakistani field hockey player
• Omair Ahmad ( born 1974 ), Indian political consultant, journalist and writer
• Osamah Ahmed Al Sanosi Ahmad ( born 1944 ), Saudi Arabian diplomat
• Qazi Hussain Ahmad (1938-2013), political and religious leaders in Pakistan
• Ramli Ahmad (1956-2002), Malaysian sprinter
• Said ibn Ahmad († 1811), the Imam of Oman
• Sardar Shir Ahmad (* 1885), Afghanistan's ambassador and minister
• Sarfaraz Ahmad (born 1954 ), Indian politician ( Congress)
• Shakeel Ahmad ( born 1956 ), Indian politician (INC )
• Sheikh Nasir Ahmad († 2000), Imam of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat
• Tantowi Ahmad (* 1987), Indonesian badminton player
• Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon ( b. 1968 ), British businessman and politician ( Conservative Party )
• Waseem Ahmad ( b. 1977 ), Pakistani hockey player
• Ahmad Yahya (born 1954 ), Malaysian cyclist

Caliph of the Ahmadiyya

• Mirza Nasir Ahmad (1909-1982), Khilafat ul- Massih III.
• Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928-2003), Khilafat ul- Massih IV
• Mirza Ahmad Masrur (* 1950), Khilafat ul- Massih V.

Other

• Shaykh Ahmad († 1505 or 1528), the last Khan of the Great Horde in the southern Volga region
• Sultan ibn Ahmad († 1804), Sayyid of Muscat

Variants

Ahmed, Ahmet ( Turkish ), Achmed, Achmed.