Tahir

Tahir — طاهر — is Arabic for pure and unblemished, a word that moves through classical poetry to describe clear water, clean hearts, and upright conduct. The name belonged to Tahir ibn Husayn, the one-eyed ninth-century general who founded the Tahirid dynasty in Khorasan, and has been carried by generations of scholars and statesmen since. It is common across the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and the Balkans, traveling easily between Sunni and Shia communities. Two measured syllables, an aspirated h at the hinge, a soft r at the close. Tahir keeps its meaning close, devotional without being severe.