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:
Surname
- Umar Arteh Ghalib (1930–), Somali politician and former Prime Minister of Somalia
- Sharif Ghalib (1961–), current Deputy Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Afghanistan in Bern, Switzerland
Given name
- Ghālib ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (c.900–981), Andalusi 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, Los Angeles-based novelist
Epithet
- 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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