QUOTE(falzehope @ Apr 21 2014, 05:05 PM)
osama bin laden
that should answer your question
I am quite curious about his name. Osama's father is not Laden but Mohammed. Osama's full name is Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden but Laden is also not his great grandfather. According to
Wiki,
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Osama bin Laden's full name, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, means "Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Laden". "Mohammed" refers to bin Laden's father Mohammed bin Laden; "Awad" refers to his grandfather, Awad bin Aboud bin Laden, a Kindite Hadhrami tribesman; "Laden" refers not to bin Laden's great-grandfather, who was named Aboud, but to a more distant ancestor.
Osama's son, Omar bin Laden also use Laden instead of Osama. So, that means that their family is using bin Laden as some sort of pseudo surname. Yet, the wiki also states
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The Arabic linguistic convention would be to refer to him as "Osama" or "Osama bin Laden", not "bin Laden" alone, as "bin Laden" is a patronymic, not a surname in the Western manner. According to bin Laden's son Omar bin Laden, the family's hereditary surname is "al-Qahtani" (Arabic: القحطاني, āl-Qaḥṭānī), but bin Laden's father Mohammed bin Laden never officially registered the name.
So, what's up with this? Any reason behind this style of naming? And how does surname come into play in Arabic name since they didn't even register it?
Any Malaysian Muslim that follow this style of naming?