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Abdullah Abdul Latif Al Othman

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Name
  
Abdullah Latif


Died
  
1965

Abdullah Abdul Latif Al Othman (Arabic: عبدالله عبد اللطيف العثمان‎‎) (1895 – 1965) was a Kuwaiti businessman who was amongst the first to live in Hawalli. He was known for his generosity and helping the poor both locally and regionally. He started a school with his brothers called Al Othman School in the 1930s. Has a street named after him in Hawalli and a mosque which he built himself in 1958, as well as Mosques in Lebanon. He also started the largest and most well-known charity in the Islamic World as Zakat called Zakat Al Othman (Arabic: زكاة العثمان‎‎).

His half brother, Mulla Othman Al Othman was a great Islamic Scholar and Imam in Kuwait.

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Abdullah Abdul Latif Al Othman Wikipedia