Maslama

Maslama or Maslamah (Arabic: <big>مَسْلَمة</big> maslamah) is an Arabic male given name and sometimes female, meaning "peace, safety and security from every calamity, disease, evil, misfortune, ordeal, pestilence, damage, harm, disaster, injury, affliction", "conciliate, re-conciliate, peacemaking, compromise", "guiltless, ingenuous, innocent, naive, simple", "compliant, flexible, obedient, god-fearing, submissive (pious), acceptance" and "deliverance, rescue, salvation".

The name Maslama stems from the male noun-name Salaam.

Maslama or Maslamah can refer to:

• Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari (616/620 – 682), companion of Muhammad and governor of Egypt
• Maslama ibn Habib (died 632), better known as Musaylimah, "false Prophet" at the time of Muhammad
• Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik (died 738), Umayyad prince and general against the Byzantines and Khazars
• Maslama ibn Hisham, Umayyad prince, son of Caliph Hisham
• Maslama ibn Yahya al-Bajali, governor of Egypt in 789
• Maslama al-Majriti (died 1007/8), Muslim scholar, astronomer and mathematician from al-Andalus