Rahman is the transliteration of a Arabic given name رحمن that comes from the triconsonantal root R-Ḥ-M, meaning "benevolent". In Islam, the name is considered one of the 99 Names of God. Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system. ... The stylized signature of Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire. ... In the terminology used to discuss the grammar of the Semitic languages, a triliteral is a root containing a sequence of three consonants (so also known as a triconsonantal root). ... (ر Ø­ Ù…) is the triconsonantal root of many Arabic words, and many of those words are used as names. ... Islam (Arabic:  ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the Quran, its principal scripture, whose followers, known as Muslims (مسلم), believe God (Arabic: الله ) sent through revelations to Muhammad. ... The 99 Names of God, also known as The 99 attributes of Allah (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), are the names of God revealed to man in the Quran;[1] even though His names (as adjectives, word constructs, or otherwise) exceed ninety-nine in the Quran. ...

Rahman as first name

• Rahman Rezaei
• Rahman Asadollahi, Azerbaijani accordion player musician, composer and conductor
• Rahman, South Indian film star.

Rahman as surname

• Hasim Rahman, heavyweight boxer
• A. R. Rahman, a popular Indian film music composer.
• Fazlur Rahman, Muslim scholar long associated with the University of Chicago.

Rahman Rezaei (رحمان رضايي in Persian, born February 20, 1975 in Esfahan) is an Iranian football player who plays for A.S. Livorno in the Serie A Italian league, as well as the Iranian national squad in the central back position. ... People named Rahman include: A. R. Rahman: a popular Indian film music composer. ... Hasim Shariff Rahman (born November 7, 1972), is an American boxer who simultaneously held the IBF and WBC world Heavyweight Championships (by knocking out Lennox Lewis) for seven months in 2001; he was also awarded the WBC World Heavyweight Championship on November 10, 2005 (upon the retirement of titleholder Vitali... Allah Rakha Rahman (Tamil: ஏ.ஆர்.ரஹ்மான்); born on January 6, 1966 as A. S. Dileep Kumar in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is a composer, best known for composing film scores and soundtracks. ... Fazlur Rahman Malik (Urdu: فضل الرحمان ملک) (September 21, 1919 – July 26, 1988) was a well-known scholar of Islam; M. Yahya Birt of the Association of Islam Researchers described him as probably the most learned of the major Muslim thinkers in the second-half of the twentieth century, in terms of both...

See also

• ‘Abd ar-Rahman (name)
• List of Arabic names
• A.R.Rahman’s music: An analysis