ad-Din

Al-Dīn (Arabic: الدين‎‎ ad-dīn  "the religion"), a component of some Arabic names, meaning "the religion", e.g. Saif al-Din "Sword of the religion".

The Arabic spelling closely transliterated is a l d ī n, but its standard transliteration is ad-dīn due to the phonological rules involving "sun letter", but in practice romanizations of Arabic names containing this element may vary greatly, including:

el Din / eldin / eddin

al-Din, ad-Din

ud-Din, -uddin (particularly in English-speaking South and East Asia), -uddeen (particularly in English-speaking South and East Asia)

• -eddine (particularly in French-speaking areas)
• -ettin (particularly in Turkish names)
• -od-din (particularly in Persian names)

Examples of names including this element are:

• Aladdin
• Alamuddin
• Alimuddin
• Amin ud-Din
• Anwaruddin
• Azharuddin
• Azim ud-Din
• Badr al-Din
• Baha' al-Din
• Burhan al-Din
• Fakhr al-Din
• Fariduddin
• Ghiyath al-Din
• Hamid al-Din
• Haqq ad-Din
• Hisham ud-Din
• Husam ad-Din
• Ikhtiyar al-Din
• Imad al-Din
• Ismat ad-Din
• Izz al-Din
• Jalal ad-Din
• Jamal ad-Din
• Kamal al-Din
• Khair ad-Din
• Majd ad-Din
• Mansur ad-Din
• Mohy al-Din
• Moinuddin
• Muhib ud-Din
• Mu'iz ad-Din
• Muslih ud-Din
• Najm al-Din
• Nasir al-Din
• Nazimuddin
• Nizam al-Din
• Nur al-Din
• Qamar ud-Din
• Qutb ad-Din
• Rashid al-Din
• Riazuddin
• Rukn al-Din
• Sabr ad-Din
• Sa'd al-Din
• Sadr al-Din
• Safi al-Din
• Saif al-Din
• Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn
• Shams al-Din
• Sharaf al-Din
• Shihab al-Din
• Shujauddin
• Sirajuddin
• Taj al-Din
• Taqi al-Din
• Zahir al-Din
• Zayn ad-Din (or Zinedine)
• Ziauddin

Use of "Uddin" as surname

In modern times in English-speaking environments the name Uddin has sometimes been used as if it was a separate surname. Some examples are:

• Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin (born 1959), British politician
• Keith Uddin (born 1979), British songwriter

See also

• al-Dawla
• Adin