Abdul Baqi (Arabic: عبد الباقى ) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Baqi. The name means "servant of the Everlasting", Al-Bāqi being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.
The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by u. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Baqi, Baki or Bagi, or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
It may refer to:
Moulana Abdul Baqi (1939–2001) was a prominent political figure of North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. He was elected as Member of the Provincial Assembly from the constituency of Swat District in the 1970s general elections and appointed as senior provincial minister in the cabinet of Mufti Mehmood, then Chief Minister of North West Frontier Province (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) of Pakistan. He also served in the selected provincial cabinet of General Zia-ul-Haq in the 1980s.
His big achievement in his political career was the merging of the Abaseen and North East part of Hazara (Palas Valley) region into Kohistan district. He was also the chairman of Motamar-e-alam e Islam. He died in Abbottabad on 24 of June 2001. He had 9 sons and three daughters. His younger brothers Moulana Ubaidullah and Mehboobullah Jan got elected as members of the Provincial and National assemblies from PF-61 and NA-23 Kohistan respectively in the February 2008 general elections.Moulana Ubaidullah died on 7th Oct 2011.
Maulvi Mullah Abdul Baqi (born 1962) is a senior Taliban official. During the Taliban regime Abdul Baqi was a diplomat, Vice-Minister of Information and Culture, Governor of Khost Province and Paktika Province.
According to a report prepared for the European Union:
During 2003, Abdul Baqi was involved in anti-government military activities in the Shinwar, Achin, Naziyan and Dur Baba Districts of the Nangarhar Province. As of 2009 he was engaged in organizing militant activities throughout the eastern region, particularly in the Nangarhar Province and Jalalabad City.
Early lists of sanctioned individuals, published by the United Nations, listed two separate individuals named Abdul Baqi. They listed Maulvi Abdul Baqi as a diplomat, and Mullah Abdul Baqi as Vice-Minister of Culture.
The Guardian quoted from diplomatic cables leaked by whistleblower organization WikiLeaks that described Abdul Baqi as a potential shadow governor