Halim

Halim or Haleem (Arabic: حليم) is an Arabic masculine given name which means gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger.[1] In Islam, al-Halīm is one of the Names of God in Islam.

Abdul Halim or Abdel Halim or Abdelhalim or alternatives with Haleem mean servant of God, as thus described, and bearers of that name are listed on that page.

Halim is also used as an abbreviated version of "Abdul Halim",[citation needed] or independently, as a name given to a male.

  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.