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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: Surname * Asadulla Al Galib (born 1998), Bangladeshi cricketer * Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and academic * Umar Arteh Ghalib (1930–), Somali people, 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 * Ghalib (1797–1869) also known as ''Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan'' was a famous Urdu poet. His honorific was ''Dabir-ul-Mulk'' and Najm-ud-Daula. Given name {{given name, Ghalib * Ghālib ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (c.900–981), Andalusi military commander * Ghalib Bin Ali (1912–2009), last elected Imam of the Ibadi sect in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghalib Bin Ali
Ghalib bin Ali bin Hilal al-Hinai ( ar, غالب بن علي الهنائي) (c. 1912 – 29 November 2009) was the last elected Imam (ruler) of the Imamate of Oman. Early life and career Prior to assuming the role of Imam, Ghalib served as the Qadi (judge) of Rustaq and Nizwa. He later served as the Treasurer of the Imamate. After the predecessor, Imam Alkhalili, died on 3 May 1954, Ghalib al-Hinai was elected to be the Imam (ruler). His father, Ali bin Hilal al-Hinai, previously served as the Wali (governor) of Rustaq. His brother Talib bin Ali would become an effective and determined leader in the Imamate's revolt against the Sultan of Muscat in the 1950s. History Oman was split between the interior, which was known as the Imamate of Oman, and the coastal Oman, known as the Sultanate of Muscat. The British government exercised vast control over the Sultanate as the defence secretary and chief of intelligence, chief adviser to the sultan and all ministers except for one were B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad I Of Granada
, predecessor = None , successor = Muhammad II , succession2 = Taifa King of Arjona , reign2 = , birth_date = , birth_place = Arjona, Almohad Caliphate , death_date = , death_place = near Granada, Emirate of Granada , burial_place = Alhambra , spouse = , issue = Muhammad II of Granada , full name = , house = Nasrid , father = , mother = , religion = Sunni Islam (Maliki) , reign = , coronation = Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Nasr (; 1195 – 22 January 1273), also known as Ibn al-Aḥmar ( ar, ابن الأحمر, "the Red") and by his honorific al-Ghalib billah ( ar, الغالب بالله, "The Victor by the Grace of God"), was the first ruler of the Emirate of Granada, the last independent Muslim state on the Iberian Peninsula, and the founder of its ruling Nasrid dynasty. He lived during a time when Iberia's Christian kingdoms—especially Portugal, Castile and Aragon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epithet
An epithet (, ), also byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It can also be a descriptive title: for example, Pallas Athena, Phoebus Apollo, Alfred the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent, and Władysław I the Elbow-high. Many English monarchs have traditional epithets: some of the best known are Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Richard the Lionheart, Æthelred the Unready, John Lackland and Bloody Mary. The word ''epithet'' can also refer to an abusive, defamatory, or derogatory phrase. This use as a euphemism is criticized by Martin Manser and other proponents of linguistic prescription. H. W. Fowler complained that "epithet is suffering a vulgarization that is giving it an abusive imputation." Linguistics Epithets are sometimes at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allah
Allah (; ar, الله, translit=Allāh, ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from '' al- ilāh'', which means "the god", and is linguistically related to the Aramaic words Elah and Syriac (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word '' El'' ('' Elohim'') for God. The feminine form of Allah is thought to be the word Allat. The word ''Allah'' has been used by Arabic people of different religions since pre-Islamic times. The pre-Islamic Arabs worshipped a supreme deity whom they called Allah, alongside other lesser deities. Muhammad used the word ''Allah'' to indicate the Islamic conception of God. ''Allah'' has been used as a term for God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) and even Arab Christians after the term " al- ilāh" and "Allah" were used interchangeably in Classical Arabic by the majority of Arabs who had become Muslims. It is also often, albeit not exclusiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Qa'im (Abbasid Caliph At Baghdad)
Abū Ja'far Abdallah ibn Aḥmad al-Qādir () better known by his regnal name al-Qā'im bi-amri 'llāh ( ar, القائم بأمر الله, , he who carries out the command of God) or simply as al-Qā'im; 1001 – 2 April 1075) was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1031 to 1075. He was the son of the previous caliph, al-Qadir. Al-Qa'im's reign coincided with the end of the Buyid dynasty's dominance of the caliphate and the rise of the Seljuk dynasty. Early life Al-Qa'im was the son of Abbasid caliph al-Qadir ( r. 991–1031) and his mother was Badr al-Dija (also known as Qatr al-Nīda). He was born in Baghdad in 1001. He spend his childhood and early life in Baghdad. His father, Al-Qadir had public proclaimed his just nine-year-old son Muhammad (elder brother of Al-Qa'im) as heir apparent, with the title of al-Ghalib Bi'llah, in 1001. However, Muhammad died before his father and never access to the throne. Al-Qadir's proclamation of his son as heir was a response to the pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Qadir
Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ishaq ( ar, أبو العباس أحمد بن إسحاق, Abu'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq; 947/8 – 29 November 1031), better known by his regnal name al-Qadir ( ar, القادر بالله, al-Qādir bi’llāh, Made powerful by God), was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 991 to 1031. He was the grandson of al-Muqtadir, and was chosen in place of the deposed caliph, at-Ta'i, his cousin. His reign was marked by the strengthening of the Abbasid caliphate's role as the champion of Sunni Islam against Shi'ism, notably through the Baghdad Manifesto of 1011, and through the codification, for the first time, of Sunni doctrines and practices in the , thereby presaging the "Sunni Revival" later in the century. Early life Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad, the future al-Qadir, was born on 28 September 947 in Baghdad. His father Ishaq was a son of Caliph al-Muqtadir (), and his mother Dimna was a slave concubine. Shortly before his birth, in December 945, Baghdad and the rest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Ghalib
Abu'l-Fadl Muhammad ibn al-Qadir ( ar, أبو الفضل محمد بن القادر ) better known by his regnal name al-Ghalib bi'llah ( ar, الغالب بالله), was an Abbasid prince, son of caliph al-Qadir. He was nominated heir in 1001, however he died before his father. Biography Muhammad was born in December 992, and was the oldest son of Caliph al-Qadir (). Muhammad, then only eight or nine years old, was proclaimed as heir apparent, with the title of ''al-Ghalib Bi'llah'', in 1001. This nomination was a response to pretenders to the caliphate from other branches of the Abbasid dynasty; in Transoxiana, a distant cousin, Abdallah ibn Uthman, a descendant of the 9th-century caliph al-Wathiq, pretended to be al-Qadir's designated heir and won the support of the local Karakhanid ruler. This event provided al-Qadir with the occasion to formally proclaim his son as heir without waiting for approval by his Buyid overlords. The Karakhanids soon recognized the Abbasid caliph's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghaleb Zu'bi
Ghaleb Zu'bi (born 1943) is a Jordanian lawyer and politician who served in different post at the various cabinets of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Zu'bi was appointed minister of interior by Prime Minister Hani Al-Mulki on 15 January 2017 and served in the post until 25 February 2018. Early life and education Zu'bi was born in Salt in 1943. He hails from one of the Jordan’s largest tribes in Salt city. He obtained a bachelor's degree in law from Damascus University in 1967. He also holds a master's degree in law, which he received in Egypt in 1981. Career After working as lawyer, Zu'bi joined politics. Then he served as director of the anti-narcotics department, the Amman police department, and assistant director of the public security department. Next, he served as member of parliament for two terms, from 1997 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2007. He was a deputy for East Bank, the first district of Balqa. During his term, he served as head of the legal committee in the lower hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla is an American writer. He is most famous for his novel ''Ode to Lata'' published in 2002, that was adapted to a film in 2008 under the title ''The Ode''. He has also published the novel ''The Two Krishnas'' in 2011, which was released as ''The Exiles'' in India. Early life Dhalla's great-grandparents were Ismailis who immigrated to Kenya from India. An only child, he was mostly raised by his mother's parents in Mombasa. He decided that he wanted to be a writer when he was five years old. The same year, his father was murdered, and his mother returned to Mombasa to be with her son. Career At 13 years old, the aspiring young novelist published his first article on infertility in a national magazine ''VIVA.'' Since then he's written for various publications including ''Instinct, Genre, Angeleno, Detour'' and ''Details'' and is the Editor of the upscale lifestyle E-zine ''IndulgeMagazine.com'' An excerpt from ''Ode to Lata'' was featured in the award-winnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharif Of Mecca
The Sharif of Mecca ( ar, شريف مكة, Sharīf Makkah) or Hejaz ( ar, شريف الحجاز, Sharīf al-Ḥijāz, links=no) was the title of the leader of the Sharifate of Mecca, traditional steward of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the surrounding Hejaz. The term ''sharif'' is Arabic for "noble", "highborn", and is used to describe the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson al-Hassan ibn Ali. The Sharif was charged with protecting the cities and their environs and ensuring the safety of pilgrims performing the Hajj. The title is sometimes spelled Sheriff or Sherif, with the latter variant used, for example, by T. E. Lawrence in ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom''. The office of the Sharif of Mecca dates back to the late Abbasid era. Until 1200, the Sharifate was held by a member of the Hawashim clan, not to be confused with the larger clan of Banu Hashim from which all Sharifs claim descent. Descendants of the Banu Hashim continued to hold the position until the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghalib Efendi
Ghālib ibn Musā‘id ibn Sa‘īd ( ar, غالب بن مساعد بن سعيد) was a sharif who served as Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1788 to 1813. Succession to the Emirate Ghalib was the son of the Emir of Mecca Musa'id ibn Sa'id (r. 1752-1770). After Musa'id's death the Emirate was held by Ghalib's uncle Ahmad ibn Sa'id (r. 1770-1773), then his brother Surur ibn Musa'id (r. 1773-1788). After Surur's death on 18 Rabi al-Thani 1202 AH (c. 27 January 1788), his brother Abd al-Mu'in assumed the Emirate. However, he reigned for only a day or part of a day (or a few days, according to some sources) before abdicating in favor of Ghalib. News of Surur's death reached Istanbul in mid-Sha'ban (May 1788), and Sultan Abdul Hamid I confirmed Ghalib's appointment. The imperial '' firman'' (proclamation) and ''khil'ah'' (robe of honor) arrived in Mecca on 29 Dhi al-Qi'dah 1202 AH (c. 1 September 1788). Conflict with his brothers On 11 Dhu al-Hijjah 1202 AH (c. 12 September 1788) Ghal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
