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Daniel is literally a book in the christian bible. The very same Daniel features in a few islam writings as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_in_Islam



Islam and Arabic largely overlap but not every Islamic name is valid in Arabic. Given Daniel has a shrine in Iran it might be a valid name in Farsi. There’re biblical names in Arabic but they sound very different in Arabic than in Europe, largely as European used the Hebrew version. Abraham in Arabic is Ibrahim, Moses is Musa, Jesus is I’sa…




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