Riffat
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Riffat is a Muslim name also sometimes given to a Hindus. The meaning of the name Riffat is high, high rank or superiority. Arabic: رفات, Bangla: রিফ্ফাত, Urdu: رافت, Hindi: रिफात. It is not listed in the top 1000 names. People with the name include:
- As a given name
- Riffat Arif, birth name of Sister Zeph (born 1983/84), Pakistani activist
- Riffat Aziz, Pakistani politician
- Riffat Hassan (born 1943), Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur'an
- Riffat Akbar Swati (born 1946), former member of the provincial assembly from Mansehra District, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
- As a surname
- Rashida Riffat, Pakistani politician
- Saffa Riffat (born 1954), president of the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technology