Last name origin & meaning: Muslim (widespread throughout the Muslim world): from the Arabic
personal name ‛Ālī ‘high’, ‘lofty’,
‘sublime’. Al-‛Ālī ‘the All-High’ is an attribute of
Allah. Abdul-‛Ālī means ‘servant of the
All-High’. ‛Ālī ibn Abī ̣Tālib (c. 600–661), the
cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, was the fourth and last
of the ‘rightly guided’ khalifs (ruled 656–61) and the first imam of
the Shiite Muslims. His assassination led to the appearance of the Shiite sect. Famous people with this last name:
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