Oppose There is a reason to use his name it is the name of the person discussed in the article Emir is a generic title and titles aren t normally used to begin Wiki article titles about persons Moreover Abd al Qadir is a common first name A cursory glance of the history of Islamic states will reveal a lot of emirs greater and lesser named Abd al Qadir What you are proposing is akin to renaming James I of England to simply King James simply because some local things are named after him e g King James Bible Finally why do you spell it Abdelkader There is better reasons to use the transliterated Abd al Qadir rather than Spanish French spelling