Amin or Amine (
Arabic: أمين,
romanized: amīn),
cognate to amen (
Arabic: آمين, ʾāmīn), is an
Arabic male
given name, meaning "devoted, honest, straightforward, trusty, worth of belief (believable), loyal, faithful, obedient".
The name has been loaned into a few other languages, namely ones spoken by Muslim populations. In
Persian (امین, amīn) it has the same meaning. The
Turkish written form of the name is
Emin.
Al-Amin (787–813), also known as Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd, better known by his regnal name Al-Amin, the sixth
AbbasidCaliph, ruling from 809 until 813
Mohamed Amin Didi (1910–1954), president of the Maldives from 1953 to 1954
Sami Amin Al-Arian (born 1958), Palestinian political activist, computer engineering professor in the United States, convicted of aiding a terrorist organization
Amine Mezbar (also known as Adel Tobbicchi), Canadian citizen arrested and charged with terrorism, following an alleged plot conspiring to blow up the American embassy in Paris in June 2002; later found not guilty of the charge in a Dutch court
Amine M'raihi, part of the Tunisian oud/qanun musical duo Amine and Hamza
Amine Rzig (born 1980), Tunisian basketball player
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