rahman

Turkish - English

Definition of rahman in Turkish English dictionary: the Compassionate (a name for God); merciful
arabic origin.
rahman suresi: Sura Rahman is

English - English

Definition of rahman in English English dictionary: Mawlana Nur al Din Abd al Rahman ibn Ahmad Abd al Rahman III Abdul Rahman Putra Alhaj Prince Chughtai Abdur Rahman Abu Zayd Abd al Rahman ibn Khaldun Abd al Aziz ibn Abd al Rahman ibn Faysal Al Zia ur Rahman Begum Khaleda
Abd al-Rahman: born January 891 died Oct. 15, 961, Córdoba, Andalusian Spain First caliph and greatest ruler of the Umayyad Arab Muslim dynasty of Spain. He succeeded his grandfather Abd Allh as emir of Córdoba in 912. He set out immediately to subdue Muslim rebels in their mountain fortresses, which became an annual task until the Umayyad's took Toledo in 933. Addressing the Christian threat to the north, he led the campaigns of Muez (920) and Navarra (924). In 928 he declared himself caliph. By 958 he had Christian kings paying him homage. During his rule, Córdoba was exemplary for its social, political, and cultural development; Christian and Jewish communities flourished, and the city's fame rivaled that of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople
Abdur Rahman Chughtai: born Sept. 21, 1894, Lahore, Pak. died Jan. 17, 1975, Lahore Pakistani artist. In the 1920s he created large watercolours in a modified Bengal-school style. By the 1940s his painting style was influenced by Mughal architecture, Islamic calligraphy, miniature painting, and Art Nouveau, and his diverse subject matter included heroes and heroines from Islamic history, Mughal kings and queens, and episodes from Punjabi, Persian, and Indo-Islamic legends and folktales. After the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, he came to be known as the national artist of Pakistan
Begum Khaleda Zia ur-Rahman: orig. Khaleda Majumdar born Aug. 15, 1945, Dinjpur district, India Politician who served as prime minister of Bangladesh. In 1959 she married Zia ur-Rahman, a leader in the fight for the independence of Bangladesh, then part of India. Her husband became president of Bangladesh in 1977, and after his assassination in 1981 she became politically active. In 1984 she assumed the leadership of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Zia was arrested repeatedly during the dictatorship of Hossain Mohammad Ershad in the 1980s, but in 1991 she led the opposition to victory and became prime minister. Her overwhelming reelection victory in February 1996 was tainted by an opposition-led boycott of the voting, and, after a wave of strikes and protests, she resigned the following month. In 2001 Zia was again elected prime minister
Prince Abdul Rahman Putra Alhaj: born Feb. 8, 1903, Alor Star, Kedah, Malaya died Dec. 6, 1990, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia First prime minister of independent Malaya (1957-63) and then of Malaysia (1963-70). He was educated in England and served in the Malayan Federal Legal Department (1949-51) before pursuing a career in politics. As president of the United Malays National Organization, Abdul Rahman brought Chinese and Indian political groups into the Alliance Party, which won an overwhelming majority in the 1955 election. He negotiated for Malayan independence from Britain (achieved in 1957); the federation of Malaysia was formed in 1963