Badawi

In Arabic onomastics (nisbah), Al-Badawi (البدوي) or simply Badawi (بدوي) denotes a relationship to or from Bedouin areas (and may consequently imply 'rustic'). It is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

• Ahmad al-Badawi, a saint in Islam
• Al-Baydawi, philosopher and mufassir
• Jamal al-Bedawi, also written Jamal al-Badawi, a contemporary Yemeni accused and convicted of planning the USS Cole Bombing
• Jamal Badawi, Egyptian-born Canadian professor and author
• Abdel Hamid Badawi, Egyptian jurist and Foreign Minister
• Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia's fifth prime minister
• Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher
• El-Sayyid el-Badawi, Egyptian businessman and the President of Al-Wafd Party
• Fares Badawi, Palestinian judoka
• Helmy Bahgat Badawi, first chairman of the Suez Canal Authority
• Mohamed Badawi, Sudanese linguist and publisher, singer and composer
• Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist, and writer
• Nadia Badawi, Egyptian-born Australian medical researcher, specialising in cerebral palsy
• Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabian blogger and prisoner of conscience
• Samar Badawi, Saudi Arabian human rights activist
• Zaki Badawi, Muslim scholar
• Zeinab Badawi, British newsreader and broadcaster

Given name:

• Badawi al-Jabal, a Syrian poet

Prof Lutfullah Badawi Writer, Poet, based in Pakistan

Other:

• Stage name of Israeli composer Raz Mesinai

See also

• Al-Badawi
• Bedouin

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