Shahidi
Encyclopedia
Shahidi is a common surname in Iran
, Afghanistan
and Tajikistan
. Like the given name Shahid
, it is a Muslim theophoric name, from Ash-Shaheed
, one of the 99 names of God in the Qur'an. It is derived from the Arabic
word for witness
or martyr.
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
and Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
. Like the given name Shahid
Shahid (name)
Shahid or Shaheed is a Muslim theophoric name, from Ash-Shaheed , one of the 99 names of God in the Qur'an.As a male given name it is common among Muslims, being also one of the names given to Muhammad. It is the Arabic word شَهيد meaning both witness and martyr.In India and Pakistan, the two...
, it is a Muslim theophoric name, from Ash-Shaheed
Ash-Shaheed
Ash-Shaheed is #50 of the 99 Names of Allah, and translates from Arabic as The Witness. The One who sees all, both seen and unseen. The constant observer....
, one of the 99 names of God in the Qur'an. It is derived from the Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
word for witness
Witness
A witness is someone who has firsthand knowledge about an event, or in the criminal justice systems usually a crime, through his or her senses and can help certify important considerations about the crime or event. A witness who has seen the event first hand is known as an eyewitness...
or martyr.
Notable people with this surname
- Abdolvahaab ShahidiAbdolvahaab ShahidiAbdolvahab Shahidi was an Iranian barbat¹ player and singer born on 1914 in Meymeh . He's noted as one of the Pioneers of Persian music by BBC Persian.-External links:...
(b. 1914), Iranian singer and oudOudThe oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North African and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging paths...
player - Freydoon ShahidiFreydoon ShahidiFreydoon Shahidi is an Iranian mathematician who is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in the U.S. He is known for a method of automorphic L-functions which is now known as the Langlands–Shahidi method. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and...
, Iranian mathematician - Ghavam ShahidiGhavam ShahidiGhavam Shahidi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and IBM Fellow.He studied electrical engineering at MIT, where he wrote a PhD thesis on "velocity overshoot in deeply scaled MOSFETs", under supervision of Professor Dimitri Antoniadis...
, Iranian-American electrical engineer - Jafar ShahidiJafar ShahidiJafar Shahidi was a notable scholar of Persian language and literature and a renowned historian of Islam.Shahidi was born in Boroujerd. He studied both in University and Seminary and held a PhD degree from Tehran University and Ijtihad from Seminaries in Qom and Najaf...
(1918–2008), Iranian academic - Tolib Shahidi (born 1946), Tajik composer
- Ziyodullo ShahidiZiyodullo ShahidiZiyodullo Shahidi was a Tajik musician and father of Persian Symphonic Music in Tajikistan.After The Second World War, in 1946, a group of Tajik melodists entered Moscow Conservatory, but only one of them managed to graduate from that School of Music. He was Ziyodullo Shahidi...
(1914-1985), Tajik musician - Burhan ShahidiBurhan ShahidiBurhan Shahidi was a political leader in Xinjiang, China during the 20th century.-Early life:Burhan Shahidi was born in 1894 in the Russian province of Kazan to a family whose ancestors had fled from Aksu, an oasis town in southern Xinjiang, after a failed peasant uprising during the Qing Dynasty...
(1894–1989), Chinese Tatar politician, Governor of Xinjiang