Qahtan (disambiguation)

Qahtan (or Kahtan) and Qahtani (Kahtani) meaning coming from Qahtan may refer to:

• Qahtan (tribe), an Arab tribal confederation in Saudi Arabia
• Al Qahtan,a village in Saudi Arabia, located in the northern part of Al-Namas governorate
• Qahtanite or Qahtani, Arabs who originate from the southern region of the Arabian Peninsula, especially from Yemen
• Qahtaniyah, Iraq, an Iraqi town about 100 km (62 mi) from Mosul and a few miles south of Sinjar

People

Given name

• Qahtan al-Attar (born 1950), Iraqi singer
• Qahtan Chathir Drain, Iraqi national footballer
• Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi (1920–1981) South Yemeni politician, the first President of the People's Republic of South Yemen

Middle name

• Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi (born 1953), Yemeni politician

Surname

Qahtan

• Abdul Qader Qahtan (born 1952), Yemeni jurist
• Riya Qahtan, Iraqi Kurdish politician

Al-Qahtani

Surname derived from the Qahtanite, Qahtani or Qahtan people from South Arabia

• Abdullah Hamid Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Guantanamo detainee
• Jabir Hasan Muhamed Al Qahtani, Guantanamo detainee
• Jabran al-Qahtani, Guantanamo detainee
• Mohammed al-Qahtani (disambiguation), many people with the name including
  • Mohammed al-Qahtani (Mohammed Mana Ahmed al-Qahtani), Guantanamo detainee, "20th hijacker"
  • Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani, co-founder of a Saudi Arabian human rights organisation
  • Mohammed Saleh Al Qahtani
• Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabian footballer

Al-Kahtani

• Muhammad Jafar Jamal al-Kahtani, citizen of Saudi Arabia who was a captive held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Bagram Theater Internment Facility

See also

• al-Qahtani (disambiguation)
• Al-Qahtaniyah (disambiguation)
• Bani Qahtan Castle, castle in the Syrian Coastal Mountains near Lattakia