Nu'man Explained
Nu'man (ar|نعمان |translit=Nuʿmān) is an Arabic given name dating to pre-Islamic times, meaning blood or red. Prevailingly, the Islamic given name is most commonly associated to the Arabic word meaning bliss. It is also used with the definite article, Arabic: النعمان, transliterated an-Nu'man or al-Nu'man. Alternatives spellings include Noman, Nouman, Noumaan, and Numan.It may refer to:
- seven of the Ghassanid Kings (327-ca. 600)
- Al-Nu'man I ibn Imru' al-Qays (reigned ca. 390–418), king of the Lakhmids
- Al-Nu'man II ibn al-Aswad (reigned 497–503), king of the Lakhmids
- Al-Nu'man VI ibn al-Mundhir (active 581-583), king of the Ghassanids
- Al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir (active (582–ca. 602), king of the Lakhmids
- Nouman ibn Muqarrin (died 641), one of the companions of Muhammad
- Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zuṭā ibn Marzubān, known as Abū Ḥanīfa (699—767), founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence
- Qadi al-Nu'man (died 974), Isma'ili jurist, official historian of the Fatimid caliphs
- Köprülü Numan Pasha (1670-1719), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- Noman Çelebicihan (1885-1918), Crimean Tatar politician
- Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1909-1996), twice Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
- Yasin Said Numan (born 1948), Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1986-1990
- Numan Gumaa (1937-2014) Egyptian lawyer and politician
- Mohamed Noman Galal (born 1943), Egyptian diplomat and author
- Numan Kurtulmuş (born 1959), Turkish politician
- Noman Mubashir (born 1974), Pakistani-Norwegian journalist
- Noman Bashir, Pakistani admiral
- Nomanul Haq (born 1948), Pakistani-American historian
- Marwan Abdullah Abdulwahab Noman, Yemeni diplomat
- No'man Ashour (1918-1987), Egyptian poet and playwright
- Noman Benotman (born 1967), Libyan politician
- Noman Masood (born 1968), Pakistani television actor
- Noman Ijaz (born 1965), Pakistani television and film actor
- Nouman Ali Khan (born 1978), Pakistani-American Muslim speaker
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