📖 À propos Tarek
Tarek est une variante arabe de Tariq ('celui qui frappe à la nuit ; l’étoile du matin qui perce les ténèbres'), le nom de la 86e sourate du Coran (Al-Tariq, 'Le Visiteur nocturne') ; son porteur le plus marquant est Tariq ibn Ziyad, dont la conquête de la péninsule Ibérique en 711 apr. J.-C. créa Al-Andalus et donna son nom à Gibraltar (de l’arabe Jabal al-Tāriq, 'Montagne de Tariq').
📍 Détails
- OrigineArabic
- Genre♂ Masculin
- SignificationVariant of Tariq. Morning star, he who knocks at the door
🔀 Variantes et Prénoms Associés
⭐ Personnes Célèbres
- Tariq ibn Ziyad — Berber-born Umayyad military commander (c. 670–720 AD), who led the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 AD; crossing the strait from North Africa with approximately 7,000 troops, he defeated the Visigothic king Roderic at the Battle of Guadalete and initiated the Islamic civilisation of Al-Andalus, which lasted nearly eight centuries and produced some of the greatest achievements in medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and architecture in the medieval world; the Rock of Gibraltar (Jabal al-Tāriq, 'Mountain of Tariq') bears his name.
- Al-Tariq (Surah 86 of the Quran) — The 86th chapter of the Quran, meaning 'The Night-Comer' or 'The Morning Star'; it begins with the oath 'By the sky and the night-comer — what is the night-comer? It is the piercing star'; Islamic exegesis identifies the tariq as a brilliant star that appears in the deep night, used as a metaphor for the divine word that pierces the darkness of ignorance; the surah's name gives Tarek/Tariq its deepest Quranic resonance.
- Tariq Ali — British-Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker (born 1943), one of the most prominent left-wing public intellectuals of the late 20th and early 21st centuries; a leading figure in the anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s; author of numerous books on politics, history, and Islam including The Clash of Fundamentalisms (2002) and The Duel (2008); his name Tariq belongs to the Pakistani and British-Pakistani tradition of Arabic naming.
- Gibraltar — Jabal al-Tāriq — The name Gibraltar is the most enduring monument to Tariq ibn Ziyad: derived from the Arabic Jabal al-Tāriq ('Mountain of Tariq'), it has been in continuous use since 711 AD when the general crossed the strait and made the great rock his base of operations; the Arabic name of this strategic promontory persisted through the Spanish Reconquista, the British occupation (from 1704), and into the present day — making Tarek/Tariq one of the very few personal names to be permanently embedded in a major European geographical landmark.