Afif Abdul Wahab

Afif Abdul Wahab (1915–2003) was a Lebanese doctor, general surgeon and urologist, businessman and philanthropist, born and raised in El Mina. After receiving his Medical Doctorate from the American University of Beirut in 1941, he opened up a hospital in his hometown of El-Mina in 1946 in partnership with Dr. Joseph Yamine and Dr. Richard Jebara, for a short period before moving to Saudi Arabia in 1949. Again with Drs Yamine and Jebara, Abdul Wahab opened up the first Arab-owned hospital in Jeddah, The Lebanese Hospital in Jeddah, and was one of the first medical doctors to live and work in Saudi Arabia. In !953 Abdul Wahab received the Saudi Citizenship from King Saud Bin Abdul Aziz, In 1962 all three partners opened another hospital in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia,Ash-Sharq Hospital which was a medical contractor for ARAMCO.

In 1971,Abdul Wahab entered into the industrial world,as a silent partner with his son Ramzi, by opening up the first car exhaust pipe factory in Saudi Arabia, and moved from a one time doctor to entrepreneurship. He retired and moved to London in 1981, before moving back to Lebanon at the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1992. He participated in the country's resurrection by getting involved in charity work as a philanthropist, establishing several scholarships and funds at local universities and foundations.

Abdul Wahhab

Abdul Wahab (Arabic: عبد الوهاب ‎) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Wahab. The name means "servant of the all-giver", Al-Wahāb being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.

The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by u. The last element may appear as Wahab, Wahhab, Vehhab, Ouahab, and others with the whole name subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

Founder of Wahabism

Males

Abdul Wahab (journalist)

Abdul Wahab (1916 – 1994) was a Bangladeshi journalist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1979 by the Government of Bangladesh.

Career

After the Liberation of Bangladesh, Wahab edited The Liberation of Bangladesh, The Dhaka Daily and Morning News. He also served as a faculty in Journalism at the University of Dhaka.

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Afif

Afif (Arabic: عفيف‎ ʿAfīf) is a city in central Saudi Arabia, in the Najd region. It is situated approximately half-way between Riyadh and Mecca. The modern town was established in the 1910s as a hijra, or "settlement", for the nomadic tribes of the area, particularly the tribe of 'Utaybah (see Ikhwan). It has since then grown into a small city of 39,581 as of the 2004 census, not counting the surrounding towns and villages, which together with 'Afif form the 'Afif Governorate.

The city once served as a gateway between the central and western regions of Saudi Arabia. The city is also known to be the first landing site of the first airplane owned by King Abdulaziz the first king of Saudi Arabia. A majority of King Abdulaziz's army came from Afif including members from the tribe that founded the town 'Utaybah, including Hnboj bin Hamad and Omar bin Rubaian

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Afif (name)

Afif (also transliterated as Afeef, Arabic: عفيف‎) is a masculine Arabic given name, it may refer to:

Given name

Surname