Sadat
Sadat (Arabic: سادات) is a suffix, which is given to families believed to be descendants of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. In Iran, after the revolution, it is mandatory to mention "Seyed" or "Sadat" in the names of seyeds or sadats whose descent from Muhammad has been mentioned in ID cards of their fathers or parental grandfathers.[1]
It can also be a given name in some countries.
Notable people with this name
- Sadat Abul Masud (active 1972), Indian judge
- Sadat Bukari (born 1989), Ghanaian footballer
- Sadat Hossain (born 1984), Bangladeshi author, film-maker and novelist
- Sadat Karim (born 1991), Ghanaian footballer
- Sadat Mansoor Naderi (born 1977), Afghan businessman
- Sadat Ouro-Akoriko (born 1988), Togolese footballer
- Anwar Sadat (1918–1981), former president of Egypt
- Jehan Sadat (1933–2021), widow of Anwar Sadat
- Sayed Aismail Balkhi, Scholar, poet, writer, and political activist( 1918)
- Ghulam Muhammad Ghobar, Historian, writer, poet, journalist, and political activist( 1897- 1978)
- Alka Sadat, Film producer
- Roya Sadat, Film producer
- Sayed Abutalib Mozaffari, Poet and Writer
- Ali Khamenei, Supreme leader of Iran since
- Ali al-Sistani, Islamic scholar( born 1930)
- Sadiq al-Shirazi, Islamic Scholar
- Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim, Islamic scholar
- Ghazal Sadat, Afghan Singer
- Hassan Nasrallah, Security- General of Hezbollah
- Sayed Askar Mousavi, Writer
- Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician
- Sayed Hussein Anwari, Afghan politician
- Syed Hussain Jahania Gardezi
- Sayed Mir Muhammad Alim Khan
- Sayed Jafar Naderi
- Sayyid Akbar, Pakistan
- Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham
- Sayyid Ibraheem Khaleel Al Bukhari
- Sayyid Danyal
- Atef Sadat, Egyptian Air Force pilot
- Nazmus Sadat (born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer
- Talaat Sadat (1954–2011), Egyptian politician
- Zallascht Sadat (born 1986), Afghan and German model
- Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (1916–1997), Bangladeshi jurist and statesman
- Sadat Tebazaalwa (born 1985), Ugandan boxer
- Sadat X (born Derek Murphy, 1968), American rapper
See also
- Saadat (disambiguation)
- SADAT International Defense Consultancy, a Turkish private military company