Mazlum (maẓlūm) is an Arabic term for "oppressed, ill-treated, injured, sinned-against" (the antonym being ẓālim "oppressor"; root ẓlm "to oppress").
In Shiism, the term adopted a meaning of "pietistic" tolerance, given as a byname to Husayn ibn Ali, who was killed in the Battle of Karbala. The term is used for a person who is unwilling to act against an injustice, not out of cowardice but out of generosity or forbearance.Hamid Enayat, Modern Islamic Political Thought, I.B.Tauris, 2005, p. 183. Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History, eds. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, SUNY Press, 1989, p. 54.
It came to be used as a male given name in the Perso-Arabic cultural sphere, and later also in Turkish, .
People named Mazlum include: Mazloum Abdi, Syrian Kurdish general Mazlum Çimen, Turkish musician Mazlum Demir (born 2003), Turkish racewalker Mazlum Doğan, Kurdish activist Mazlum Kayalar, Turkish politician a character in the medieval Arabic drama Delhemma
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See also Hasan-e Mazlum, village in Iran