Halim (name)

Halim or Haleem (Arabic: حليم) is an Arabic masculine given name which means gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger, "what we call a civilized man".[1]

In Islam, Al-Halīm is one of the 99 names of God, with that meaning, but is in the definite article ("Al-" prefix).

Abdul Halim or Abdel Halim means servant of God, as thus described, and bearers of that name are listed on that page.

Halim is also a Chinese Indonesian surname based on Lim (林).

Given name

Halim is also used as an abbreviated version of Abdul Halim, or independently, as a name given to a male. Examples of that are:

• Halim Bukhari, Bangladeshi Deobandi scholar
• Halim Barakat, Syrian novelist
• Halim Benmabrouk, Algerian footballer
• Haleem Brohi, Pakistani author
• Haleem Chaudhri, Bengali cricketer
• Halim El-Dabh, American composer
• Halim Haryanto, Indonesian / American badminton player
• Halim Perdanakusuma, Indonesian aviator and national hero, after whom Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport is named
• Halim Medaci, Algerian footballer
• Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier
• Halim Saad, Malaysian businessman

Surname

Halim may also be a last name:

• Aamer Haleem, Canadian radio and television personality
• Helmy Halim, Egyptian filmmaker
• Melanie Fiona Hallim, Canadian-Guyanese singer
• Mohammad Haleem, Pakistani judge
• Mustafa Ben Halim (1921–2021), ex-Prime Minister of Libya
• Natasha Mannuela Halim, Miss World Indonesia 2016
• Rachman Halim, Indonesian businessman

See also

• Lim (disambiguation)

References

1. Golziher, Ignaz, Muslim Studies, ed. S.M. Stern (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. 202–203, as cited in Stetkevych, Jaroslav, Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Deconstructing Arabian Myth (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 14.