Editing Osama bin Laden (section)

== Name ==
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Bin Laden's name is most frequently rendered as "Osama bin Laden". The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) and [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA), as well as other U.S. governmental agencies, have used either "Usama bin Laden" or the accepted transliteration "Usama bin Ladin".

Osama bin Laden's full name, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, means "Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Laden".<ref name="Davies2018">{{Cite book |last1=Davies |first1=William D. |last2=Dubinsky |first2=Stanley |year=2018 |title=Language Conflict and Language Rights: Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on Human Conflict |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=74 |isbn=978-1-107-02209-6 }}</ref> "Mohammed" refers to Bin Laden's father Mohammed bin Laden; "Awad" refers to his grandfather, Awad bin Aboud bin Laden, a Kindite [[Hadhrami people|Hadhrami]] tribesman. Aboud's father was Ali, whose father was Omar. The family includes many individuals over a [[bin Laden family#Family tree|number of generations]].

He was named {{transliteration|ar|Usama}}, meaning "lion", after [[Usama ibn Zayd]], one of the [[companions of the Prophet|companions]] of [[Muhammad]].{{Sfn|Scheuer|2011|p=21}} Osama bin Laden had assumed the {{transliteration|ar|[[kunya (Arabic)|kunya]]}} (teknonym) {{transliteration|ar|Abū ʿAbdallāh}}, meaning "father of [[Abdallah bin Laden|Abdallah]]" The Arabic [[natural language|linguistic]] convention would be to refer to him as "Osama" or "Osama bin Laden", not "Bin Laden" alone, as "Bin Laden" is a patronymic, not a surname in the Western manner. According to one of his sons [[Omar bin Laden|Omar]], the family's hereditary surname is {{transliteration|ar|[[al-Qahtani (disambiguation)|āl-Qaḥṭānī]]}}, but Bin Laden's father, [[Muhammad bin Ladin]], never officially registered the name.<ref>{{cite book |last1=bin Laden |first1=Najwa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RcBwm5b8VbAC |title=Growing up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World |last2=bin Laden |first2=Omar |last3=Sasson |first3=Jean |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-312-56016-4 |location=New York |page=301 |author-link=Najwa Ghanem |author-link2=Omar bin Laden |author-link3=Jean Sasson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407011237/http://books.google.com/books?id=RcBwm5b8VbAC |archive-date=7 April 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>