Rabia

Template:Sister project Rabia or Rabiah is the transliteration of two Arabic names written differently in Arabic text however they may be written similarly in the Latin script:

• An Arabic, usually female name ) meaning "Spring"
• An Arabic, female name ( ) or Rabeya meaning "spring" or "fourth female"

Rabia or Rabiah may refer to:

People

Male name Rabīʿah ()

• Rabiah ibn Kab, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
• Rabiah ibn Mudhar (6th-century), Jewish king in present-day Yemen
• Ayyash ibn Abi Rabiah (died 636), companion of Muhammad
• Utbah ibn Rabi'ah (died 624), pre-Islamic Arab tribal leader
• Salman ibn Rabiah (died 650), military governor of Armenia
• Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah (died 652), Arab general of the Rashidun Caliphate
• Fouad Mahmoud al Rabiah (born 1959), Kuwaiti national formerly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay
• Robert Rabiah (born 1986), Australian film actor and writer
• Tawfiq Al Rabiah (born 1965), Saudi minister
• Abu Hamza Rabia (died 2005), Egyptian member of al-Qaeda
• Hamad Abu Rabia (1929–1981), Israeli-Arab politician
• Hassan Rabia (born 1984), Omani footballer
• Mohammed Rabia Al-Noobi (born 1981), Omani footballer
• Ramy Rabia (born 1993), Egyptian footballer
• Rabia Makhloufi (born 1986), Algerian steeplechase runner

Female name Rābiʿah ()

• Rabia Akyürek (born 1999), Turkish wheelchair basketball player
• Rabia of Basra (710s–801), female Muslim Sufi saint
• Rabia Balkhi (10th century), semi-legendary figure of Persian literature
• Rabia Bala Hatun (died 1324), First Wife of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire.
• Rabia Sultan (died 1712), haseki of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed II
• Rabia Şermi Kadın (died 1732), consort of Sultan Ahmed III and mother of Sultan Abdülhamid I
• Cheikha Rabia (born 1944), Algerian singer
• Rabia Ashiq (born 1992), Pakistani athlete
• Rabia Butt, Pakistani model and actress
• Rabia Cirit (born 1998), Turkish female para-athlete
• Rabia Kayahan (born 2000), Turkish female armwrestler
• Rabia Kazan (born 1976), Turkish journalist
• Rabia Qari, Pakistani barrister
• Rabiah Hutchinson (born 1953), Australian militant Islamist leader
• Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (born 1976), Israeli Bedouin anthropologist and sociologist

Rabeya

• Rabeya Alim (born 1950), Bangladesh Awami League politician
• Rabeya Chowdhury (fl. 1979–2006), Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician
• Rabeya Khan, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Rabeya Khatun (1935–2021), Bangladeshi novelist
• Rabeya Müller (1957–2024), German Islamic scholar
• Rabia Bhuiyan (fl. 1996–2001), Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician

Places

• Al-Rabiaa, a village in northwestern Syria
• Diyar Rabi'a, the medieval Arabic name of the easternmost province of the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia)
• Oum Rabia, a commune in Khénifra Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco
• Rabia, Iraq, a small border crossing town between Iraq and Syria
• Rabia, Syria, a town in the Latakia Governorate, northwestern Syria

Other uses

• Rabīʿa, an Arab tribe
• Rabia School, Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
• Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque, a mosque in Cairo, Egypt
• Rabia sign, a hand gesture
• Rabeya (2008 film), Bangladeshi film

See also

• Rabeya (disambiguation)
• Rabiah (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Rabia