# Alim

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This article is about the name of God (*ʿalīm*). For a scholar (*ʿālim*) in Islam, see [Ulama](/source/Ulama).

For other uses, see [Alim (disambiguation)](/source/Alim_(disambiguation)).

**Alim** (or **ʿAlīm** عليم, also anglicized as **Aleem**) is one of the [Names of God in Islam](/source/Names_of_God_in_Islam), meaning "All-knowing one". It is also used as a personal name, as a short form of [Abdul Alim](/source/Abdul_Alim), "Servant of the All-Knowing".

## Given name

- [Alim Ashirov](/source/Alim_Ashirov) (1955–1979), Soviet footballer
- [Aleem Dar](/source/Aleem_Dar) (born 1968), Pakistani cricketer
- [Aleem Ford](/source/Aleem_Ford) (born 1997), American-Puerto Rican basketball player
- [Alim Karkayev](/source/Alim_Karkayev) (born 1985), Russian footballer
- [Alim Khan](/source/Alim_Khan_(Kokand)) (1774–1810), Khan of Kokand
- [Alim Kouliev](/source/Alim_Kouliev) (born 1959), Russian-American actor and director
- [Alim McNeill](/source/Alim_McNeill) (born 2000), American football player
- [Alim Öztürk](/source/Alim_%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk) (born 1992), Turkish footballer
- [Alim Qasimov](/source/Alim_Qasimov) (born 1957), Azerbaijani musician
- [Alim Qurbanov](/source/Alim_Qurbanov) (born 1977), Azerbaijani footballer

### Middle name

- [Mohammed Alim Khan](/source/Mohammed_Alim_Khan), last emir of the Manghit dynasty
- [Mohammad Alim Qarar](/source/Mohammad_Alim_Qarar), member of the Wolesi Jirga for Laghman Province, Afghanistan

## Surname

- [Alim (surname)](/source/Alim_(surname)), surname
- [Juice Aleem](/source/Juice_Aleem), British rapper
- [Mariam A. Aleem](/source/Mariam_A._Aleem) (1930–2010), Egyptian artist and academic
- [Obaidullah Aleem](/source/Obaidullah_Aleem) (1939–1998), Pakistani Urdu poet

## Other uses

- [Ulama](/source/Ulama), plural of ['alim](/source/'alim), an Islamic legal scholar

## See also

- [Abd al-Alim](/source/Abd_al-Alim)
- [Alimullah](/source/Alimullah_(disambiguation))
- [Alimuddin](/source/Alimuddin_(disambiguation))

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