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Ghalib (name)

Ghalib (Arabic: غالب ghālib) is an Arabic masculine given name which generally means "to overcome, to defeat", also meaning "successor, victor". It may also be a surname and refer several notable people:

Given name

  • Ghālib ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (900–981), Andalusian military commander
  • Ghalib Bin Ali (1912–2009), last elected Imam of the Ibadi sect in Oman
  • Ghalib Efendi, former Sharif of Hejaz
  • Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla (born 1978), Los Angeles-based novelist
  • Ghaleb Zu'bi (born 1943), Jordanian lawyer and politician

Surname

  • Amer Ghalib (born 1979), American politician
  • Asadulla Al Galib (born 1998), Bangladeshi cricketer
  • Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and academic
  • Umar Arteh Ghalib (1930–2020), Somali politician and former prime minister of Somalia
  • Sharif Ghalib (born 1961), Afghan politician
  • Ghalib (1797–1869), also known as Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, Urdu poet
  • Sohel Hasan Galib (born 1978), Bangladeshi poet

Epithet

  • Al-Ghalib billah also known as Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qadir (992–1019), was the son of Al-Qadir (r. 991–1031) and elder brother of Al-Qa'im (r. 1031–1075). He was nominated heir in 1001.
  • Al-Ghalib Billah (Arabic: الْغَالِبُ بِالله al-ghālibu billah; "The Victor by the Grace of Allah [God]") or simply Al-Ghalib (Arabic: الْغَالِب al-ghālib), the honorific epithet of founder and Sultan Muhammad I of Granada of the Nasrid Dynasty of Emirate of Granada
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