Aswad (name)
Aswad is a masculine Arabic given name and surname that means "black". Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Al-Aswad al-Ansi, Arab tribal leader
- Aswad Thomas, English footballer
- Aswad ibn Yazid, narrator of hadith
Surname
- Abdulrazzaq Aswad, Iraqi military leader and governor
- Abu al-Aswad ad-Du'ali, Arab grammarian
- Ali Aswad al-Jiburi, Iraqi ISIS commander
- Bill Aswad, American politician
- Evelyn Aswad, American legal scholar
- Fatima bint Al-Aswad, companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Isa ibn Mazyad al-Aswad, Arab ruler
- Kamil Al-Aswad, Bahraini footballer
- Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, Andalusian navigator
- Mahmoud Al Aswad, Syrian footballer
- Miqdad ibn Aswad, companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Omar Al-Aswad, Libyan politician
- Radwa El Aswad, Egyptian writer
- Wathiq Aswad, Iraqi footballer
- Ziad Abderrazzak Mohammad Aswad, former government minister in Iraq
Other uses
Other uses of the word include:- Al-Abd Al-Aswad, a form of torture noted in Syria
- Hajarul Aswad, the Black Stone at the Kaaba in Mecca
- Aswad, British reggae group
- Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
- أيلول الأسود, Black September.