# Azim

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Not to be confused with [Azem](/source/Azem_(disambiguation)) or [Azm](/source/Azm_(disambiguation)) or [Asim](/source/Asim_(disambiguation)).

**Azim** (*ʿAẓīm* عظيم) is one of the [names of Allah in Islam](/source/Names_of_Allah_in_Islam), meaning "*Great*" or "*Magnificent*" or "*Protector*" Also used as a personal name, as short form of the [Abdolazim](/source/Abdolazim), [Abdul Azim](/source/Abdul_Azim), "*Servant of the Magnificent*". It is used by many [Sahrawi people](/source/Sahrawi_people) as a surname originating from the [Hassaniya Arabic](/source/Hassaniya_Arabic).

The word Azim or Al Azim is also a [Nisba](/source/Nisba_(onomastics)) used in [Oman](/source/Oman) for people from the village of Azim in Gwadar (During Omani Gwadar) near Shinkani Dar

Notable people with the name include:

**Given name:**

- [Abdel Azim Ashry](/source/Abdel_Azim_Ashry) (1911–1997), Egyptian basketball player
- [Azim Hussein](/source/Azim_Hussein), Indo-Fijian educationalist and politician
- [Tariq Azim Khan](/source/Tariq_Azim_Khan), Pakistani politician
- [Azim Nanji](/source/Azim_Nanji), Kenyan-born professor of Islamic studies
- [Azim Premji](/source/Azim_Premji) (born 1945), Indian business tycoon
- [Seyid Azim Shirvani](/source/Seyid_Azim_Shirvani) (1835–1888), Azerbaijani poet
- [Azim Surani](/source/Azim_Surani) (born 1945), Kenyan-British developmental biologist

**Surname:**

- [Hazem Abdel-Azim](/source/Hazem_Abdel-Azim) (born 1960), Egyptian government opponent, senior adviser to the telecommunications minister in 2007
- [Essam Abdel-Azim](/source/Essam_Abdel-Azim) (born 1970), football footballer of Egypt national football team
- [Abdul Azim Al-Aliwat](/source/Abdul_Azim_Al-Aliwat) (born 1967), Saudi Arabian athlete, competed in the men's javelin throw at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- [Eshan Azim](/source/Gwadar), Last [Wali](/source/Wali_(administrative_title)) of [Omani Gwadar](/source/Muscat_and_Oman)

## See also

- Azim, Western Saraha, a village in Sahrawi Controlled Western Sahara, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- [Al Azim Mosque](/source/Al_Azim_Mosque), the state mosque of [Malacca](/source/Malacca), [Malaysia](/source/Malaysia)
- [Azamat](/source/Azamat)
- [Ashkenazim](/source/Ashkenazi_Jews)

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