Nimatullah
Nimatullah, also spelled Ni'matullāh, Nematollah etc. (Arabic: نعمة الله ) is a male Muslim given name, is used mostly in Arabic speaking countries, also used by Arabic-speaking Christians.
The meaning
It is composed of the elements Nimat, meaning blessing and Allah, meaning of God.
People
- Shah Ni'matullah Wali (1330–1431), Islamic scholar and Sufi poet
- Nimat Allah al-Harawi (fl. 1613-1630), author of a Persian language epic history of the Afghans
- Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini (ca. 1808-1858), Lebanese Roman Catholic saint
- Hajj Nematollah (1871-1919), Kurdish-Persian mystic poet and historian
- Nematollah Nassiri (1911—1979) director of SAVAK, the Iranian intelligence agency
- Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi (1923/24-2006), Iranian cleric
- Nematollah Gorji (1926–2000), Iranian theatre and film actor
- Nematullo Quttiboev (born 1973), Uzbek footballer
- Nematullah Shahrani, Afghan scholar and politician
- Abu Eesa Niamatullah, British imam and lecturer
See also
- Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine, in Mahan, Iran
- Ni'matullāhī, Iranian Sufi order
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