Ata-ur-Rahman

'''Ata-ur-Rahman''' ({{langx|ar| عطا الرحمن }}) is a masculine Islamic given name. It is built from the Arabic words ''Ata'', ''al-'' and ''Rahman''. The name means "gift of the most merciful", ''ar-Rahman'' being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.<ref name=ahmed>{{cite book| title=A Dictionary of Muslim Names| author=Salahuddin Ahmed| publisher = Hurst & Company| location=London| year=1999}}</ref><ref name=rahman>{{cite book| title=A Dictionary of Muslim Names| author= S. A. Rahman| publisher=Goodword Books| location=New Delhi| year=2001}}</ref> The letter ''a'' of the ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, usually by ''u''. Because the letter ''r'' is a sun letter, the letter ''l'' of the ''al-'' is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written in Arabic and Urdu with letters corresponding to ''Ata al-Rahman'', the usual pronunciation corresponds to ''Ata ur-Rahman''. The transliteration ''Atta'' often appears for the first element and ''Rehman'' for the last, all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation. Notable people with the name include:

==Given name== * Ataurrehman (born 1968), Indian politician * Ataur Rahman (actor) (1941–2026), Bangladeshi theatre actor and director * Ataur Rahman (Gaibandha politician), Bangladeshi politician from Gaibandha-4 * Ataur Rahman (poet) (1925–1999), Bangladeshi poet * Ataur Rahman (politician, born 1951) (1951–2017), Bangladeshi Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD politician * Ataur Rahman Bachchu (born 1980), Bangladeshi politician and businessman * Ataur Rahman Khan, multiple people * Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya, Indian politician * Ataur Rahman Mazumder (1911–1998), Indian freedom fighter and community leader * Ata-ur-Rehman (cricketer) (born 1975), Pakistani cricketer * Atta-ur-Rahman (chemist) (born 1942), Pakistani organic chemist * Atta-ur-Rehman (politician) (born 1965), Pakistani politician * Atta-Ur-Rehman Chishti, known as Rehman Chishti (born 1978), British politician * Atta ur Rehman Memon, Pakistani electrical engineer * Atiur Rahman (born 1951), Bangladeshi economist * Md. Atiur Rahman (1939–2013), Bangladeshi academic and politician

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