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'''Halim''' ('''حليم''') is an [[Arabic language|Arabic]] [[adjective]] with two meanings.
*In [[Islam]], ''al-Halim'' is one of the 99 names of God
*A virtue that can be translated as gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger—"what we call a civilized man" <ref>Golziher, Ignaz, ''Muslim Studies'', ed. S.M. Stern (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. 202–203, as cited in Stetkevych, Jaroslav, ''Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Deconstructing Arabian Myth'' (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 14.</ref>
Halim is also a name given to a male (as '''Abdul Halim'''):
*[[Abdul Hamid Halim]], 28th Sultan of Kedah
*[[Abdel Halim Ali]], Egyptian footballer
*[[Halim Barakat]], Syrian novelist
*[[Halim Begaj]], Albanian footballer
*[[Halim Benmabrouk]], Algerian footballer
*[[Halim El-Dabh]], American composer
*[[Halim El Roumi]], Lebanese musician
*[[Abdel Halim Hafez]], Egyptian singer
**[[Halim (album)]], a Belgian record named after him
**[[Halim (film)]], a film based on him
*[[Abdul Halim bin Haron]], Singaporean bodybuilder
*[[Halim Haryanto]], American badminton player
*[[Abdul Halim Khaddam]], ex-Vice President of Syria
*[[Abd Halim Mahmud]], 46th Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University
*[[Halim Medaci]], Algerian footballer
*[[Halim Nassim Abi Chahine]], Lebanese surgeon
*[[Said Halim Pasha]], Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier
*[[Halim Saad]], Malaysian businessman
*[[Abdul Halim Sadiqi]], Pakistani terror suspect
*[[Halim Shah]], Bangladeshi cricketer
*[[Abdul Halim Sharar]], Indian historian
*[[Sheikh Abdul Halim]], Chechen rebel
*[[Tuanku Abdul Halim]], current Sultan of Kedah
Halim may also be a last name:
*[[Aziza Abdel-Halim]], President of the Muslim Women's National Network, Australia
*[[Helmy Halim]], Egyptian filmmaker
*[[Mustafa Ben Halim]], ex-Prime Minister of Libya
*[[Rachman Halim]], Indonesian businessman
== Notes ==
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[[Category:Allah]]
[[Category:Arabic masculine given names]]
[[Category:Arabic words and phrases]]
[[Category:Islamic terms]]
[[Category:Names of God]]
[[Category:Virtues]]