In Tajikistan, Islamic Names Are The New Fashion
rferl.org / Farangis Najibullah, Zarangez Navruzshoh
07-Oct-2010 (2 comments)

Until earlier this year, one 19-year-old student from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, was known as Shohrukh to his friends and family.

But he recently decided to ditch his "purely Tajik" first name and now answers to "Muhammad," the name of Islam's prophet.

"I came to this decision gradually," Muhammad says. "I learned about Islam and wanted to get a suitable Muslim name for myself." He says that he heard that "on Doomsday, everyone will be called by their first names, so I wanted to be called Muhammad."

So-called Islamic names are becoming increasingly popular in the predominantly Muslim country.

Like Muhammad, those who have chosen new names are largely young men in their late teens and early 20s. And an increasing number of parents are picking Islamic names for their newborn babies.

Experts say the trend reflects the growing influence of Islam among Tajiks.

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mahmoudg

in doomsday every one will be called by their first name!!!!!

by mahmoudg on

so the logic goes (purely for those who follow the lead of religion), when who ever the elected or rather selected angel fo reading names is that day, calls for the name Mohamad, and a million morons answer his call, what then!???

how about when the same angel calls on Christ, or Jesus (Spanish), oh sorry!! the christians and Jews will have their own angel, their own god and their own parallel heaven and hell to go to.  What a bunch of farse and hogwash, these religious nuts follow!!!


Darius Kadivar

Dommage ...

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Tajik director Boris Kimyagarov's 1971 Epic tribute to Persian Poet's Patriotic Ode :

THE TIMELESS LEGEND OF ROSTAM AND SOHRAB by DK