Muslim Name · Male · Arabic origin
Sifeddine Name Meaning in Islam
Sword of religion.
- Meaning
- Sword of religion. Tunisian variant
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Boy
- Urdu
- سیف الدین
- Pronunciation
- si-fed-DI-ne
- Lucky number
- 2
Is Sifeddine an Islamic name? Yes. Sifeddine is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Sword of religion. Tunisian variant. Islamic tradition asks that a name carry a good meaning and claim nothing that belongs to God alone, and this name meets both.
Read the letter-by-letter reading ↓Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
س-ي-ف + د-ي-ن. French/Maghrebi spelling of Sayf al-Dīn, 'sword of the religion'.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Sin secret, Ya reaching, Fa opening, Alif origin, Lam authority, Dal return, Ya reaching, Nun depth.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Sifeddine's letters draw from many elements at once, a full palette, not a single note. This is a name that asks its bearer to hold contradictions gracefully: warmth and steadiness, movement and depth. Running through the reading is Al-Sami, the All-Hearing, carried by a person as the alertness to hear what is not being said aloud. A person named Sifeddine is many things at once, and gets to choose which shows up when.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
The Tunisian-French spelling of Sayf al-Dīn (سيف الدين), 'sword of the religion'. The compound is one of the most weight-bearing of the medieval Islamic regnal names, given to military leaders who defended the faith. The name has been borne by sultans across the Mamluk, Ayyubid, and Ottoman dynasties.
Most prominently: Sayf al-Dīn Quṭuz (d. 1260), the Mamluk sultan who, with his general Baybars, defeated the Mongol invasion of the Levant at the battle of Ayn Jalut in 1260, halting the Mongol advance into Egypt and saving the Islamic heartland from devastation. The battle is one of history's most consequential.
Sifeddine is specifically Tunisian; the Algerian and Levantine spellings are Saifeddine, Seifeddine, Saifuddin (South Asian). Variants: Sayfuddin, Saifuddin, Seifeddine, Sifeddine (Tunisian), Saifoddin. Same sword-imagery family: Husam (sword), Saif/Sayf, Sayfullah (sword of Allah). Pair-names: Yassine, Karim, Mohamed.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
How to Pronounce Sifeddine
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What does the name Sifeddine mean?
The letters of Sifeddine, beginning with Sin, each carry a separate quality. What does Ilm ul Huroof read here? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Sifeddine? →
Is Sifeddine mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Sifeddine mean in Urdu?
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Is Sifeddine a good Islamic name?
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What is the spiritual meaning of Sifeddine in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is the Ibn Arabi tradition of Ilm ul Huroof. Each letter in Sifeddine, starting from Sin, is a structural principle. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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