Imad al-Din or Imad ad-Din (), also Imad ud-din, is a male Muslim given name meaning "pillar of the religion, faith", composed from the nouns ‘imad, meaning pillar, and al-Din, of the faith.
This theophoric name is formed from the Arabic male given name Imad.
Other written variants are Imadaddin, Imaduddin, Emadeddin, etc.
Notable bearers of the name include:
Al-Kiya al-Harrasi (1058–1110), Islamic scholar Imad al-Din Zengi (c. 1085–1146), emir of Mosul and Aleppo Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125–1201), Persian poet and historian Amadin, 13th-century Yazidi saint Imadaddin Nasimi (1369–1417), Azerbaijani Ḥurūfī poet Idris Imad al-Din (1392–1468), head of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community and historian Imad al-Din Mahmud ibn Mas‘ud Shirazi (mid 16th century), Persian physician Muhammad Imaduddin I (1580–1648), sultan of the Maldives Muhammad Imaaduddeen IV (died 1882), sultan of the Maldives Muhammad Imaaduddeen V (died 1893), sultan of the Maldives Imad ud-din Lahiz (1830–1900), Islamic writer who converted to Christianity Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI (1868–1932), sultan of the Maldives Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad (born 1948), American Muslim scholar Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, known as Dodi Fayed (1955–1997), Egyptian film producer Emadeddin Baghi (born 1962), Iranian journalist and political activist Ja'far us Sadiq Imaduddin (born 1973), Indian Scholar Imaduddin (ICMI) (1931–2008), Indonesian religious and political activist Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, also known as Abu Dahdah, Syrian-born Spaniard sentenced to prison in Spain for his part in the September 11, 2001 attacks
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