Thread:FrenchTouch/@comment-9803708-20160722091045/@comment-6548012-20160723101443

Yeah, I can understand that Hassan seems relatively special - though Ab, the semitic root used for “father of” isn't to be used in a family name, because that wouldn't make sense - Arabic family names refer to the ascendency, not the descendency, like pretty much every family name I've ever known of. So Abu only comes later, and it comes before the first name, meaning it would be Abu Khalid Al Fahim - and here you will notice the “al” is written differently than before, because “al-” means “the” whilst “Al” means “of the.” Another remark I'd like to make is that Abu is generally used in a religious context, the same way a priest is called “father.” So if it was me, I'd personally scratch the whole father thing. If you really wanna add something related to Islam, I imagine you could add as-Siddiq, which means the friend, the truthful, the loyal one, if you prefer. If you were to add it instead, the full name would be Khālid Al Fahīm aṣ-Ṣiddīq, (خالد آل فهم الصديق) which would mean eternal son of the loyal scholars, though my reconstruction may be incorrect, because as you know it, I don't speak Arabic for shit, it's only a reconstruction. A last noteworthy thing is that Fahīm aṣ-Ṣiddīq also literally means understanding friend, which would be a quite nice explanation for loyal scholars if you see what I mean.