Abdul Quddus

Abdul Quddus (Arabic: عبد القدوس‎) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Quddus. The name means "Servant of the All-holy", Al-Quddus being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.^[1][2]

The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by u. The last element may appear as Quddous, Qudus or in other ways, with the whole name subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

• Abdul Quddus Gangohi (1456–1537), Indian Sufi poet
• Ihsan Abdel Quddous (1919–1990), Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist
• Abdul Qudus (detainee) (born 1988), Afghan held in Guantanamo
• Abdul Quddoos Khan, Pakistani microbiologist
• Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Egyptian-American journalist
• Isa Abdul-Quddus, Detroit Lions safety

References

1. Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.
2. S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.