Fathallah Explained

Fathallah
Gender:	Male
Meaning:	Conquest of Allah (by Allah)
Language:	Arabic
Variant:	Fath Allah, Fathalla

Fathallah, Fathalla or the Turkish variant Fethullah is a transliteration of the Arabic given name, فتح الله (Fatḥ Allāh), built from the Arabic words fath and Allah. It is one of many Arabic theophoric names, meaning "Allah's opening (God's opening)" or "God's conquest".^[1]

Given name

Fathallah

• Fathallah Oualalou, Moroccan politician
• Fathallah Saqqal (born 1898), Syrian attorney, writer and government minister
• Fathallah Sijilmassi, Moroccan politician and economist
• Fathallah al-Zani, Libyan politician

Fethullah

• Fethullah Gülen (born 1941), Turkish preacher, former imam, writer and political figure. Founder of the Gülen movement (also known as Hizmet)

Surname

• Hesham Fathallah (born 1990), Egyptian footballer
• Mahmoud Fathalla, Egyptian footballer

Places

• Fathallah barracks, the early headquarters of the Hezbollah organisation
• Kalateh-ye Fathallah, a village in Shirin Su Rural District, Maneh District, Maneh and Samalqan County, North Khorasan Province, Iran

Other

• Fathallah Gomla Market, a supermarket chain in Egypt

Notes and References

1. Parati: Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy, 201.