Abu'l-Fadl
Abu'l Faḍl (Arabic: ابوالفضل) is an Arabic male given name which also occurs in place-names. It means father of virtue. It can variously be transliterated as Abu'l-Fadl, Abu'l-Fazl, Abul Fazal etc. It is also used in Iran and Azerbaijan, usually in the form of Abolfazl, or Abulfaz.
It may refer to:
People
Abu'l-Fadl, nickname given to Abbas ibn Ali (647–680), the son of the first Imam and the fourth Caliph
Abu'l-Fadl al-Abbas ibn Fasanjas (c. 876-953, statesman who served the Buyid dynasty
Abu 'l-Fadl Ja'far ibn Ahmad al-Mu'tadid, known as Al-Muqtadir (895–932), Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad
Abolfadl Harawi (10th century), Persian astronomer under the patronage of the Buyid dynasty
Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995-1077), Persian historian and author
Abu al-Fadl `Iyad ibn Amr ibn Musa ibn `Iyad ..., knnown as Qadi Ayyad (1083–1149), imam in Ceuta, judge in Granada
Abu al-Fadl Ja'far ibn 'Ali al-Dimashqi (12th-century), Muslim writer on commerce, from Damascus
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551–1602), vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar, and author of Akbarnama, the official history of Akbar's reign