Abdul Hai
Abdul Hai is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Hayy. The name means "servant of the Living God", Al-Hayy 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 e. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Hai, Hay, Hayy or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
Notable people with the name include:
- Abdul Hai , British Bangladeshi acquitted of murdering Richard Everitt, later a Labour councillor in Camden
- Abdul Hai, former MP for the Naogaon-5 constituency in Bangladesh
- Saʿīd Abdul-Hay ibn Dhaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardēzī, or just Abu Saʿīd Gardēzī,, Persian historian
- Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui, known as Bekhud Badayuni, Indian Urdu poet
- Saleh Abdel Hai, Egyptian singer
- Abdul Hai Habibi, Afghan scholar and historian
- Abdel hay Mashhour, Egyptian academic administrator
- Mohammed Abdul-Hayy, Sudanese poet
- Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, known as Daniel Moore,, American poet, essayist and librettist
- Asif Abdulhai Mulla, or just Asif Mulla, Indian-Canadian cricketer
- Abdul Hai Baloch, Pakistani politician
- Abdul Hai Neamati, Afghan politician
- Abdul Hai, active 1934–1936
- Abdul Hai, Hyderabad cricketer
- Muhammad Abdul Hye, Bengali litterateur and linguist
- Abdul Hai Arifi, Pakistani Islamic scholar
- Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi, Indian Islamic Hanafi scholar