Imad (also

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as Emad, Imed and Aimad ar, عماد) is an Arabic masculine

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and surname and means "support" or "pillar".

Given name

* Imād ad-Dīn

Muhammad bin Qasim Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Thaqāfī ( ar, محمد بن القاسم الثقفي; –) was an Arab military commander in service of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the Muslim conquest of Sindh (part of modern Pakistan), inaugurating the Umayya ...

, Umayyad Caliphate general * Imad Abbas, Palestinian military commander *

Imad Baba Imad Baba (born March 15, 1974) is a former American association football, soccer midfielder. He spent seven years in Major League Soccer (MLS) with the New England Revolution and Colorado Rapids. He was also a member of the American squads at th ...

, American soccer player *

Emad Hajjaj Emad Hajjaj ( ar, عماد حجاج) is a Palestinian-Jordanian editorial cartoonist. He is best known for his work in '' Al Ra'i'' and the ''Jordan Times'' daily newspapers. Early life Emad was born in Jordan's West Bank in 1967. He received his ...

, Jordanian political cartoonist *

Emad al-Janabi Emad Khudhayir Shahuth al-Janabi ( ar, عماد خضير شهوته الجنابي) (born c. 1965) was an Iraqi blacksmith detained in Abu Ghraib prison where he alleges he was abused by American military personnel and defense contractors. Impr ...

, Iraqi blacksmith *

Imad Khalili Imad Khalili ( ar, عماد خليلي; born 3 April 1987) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or a striker. He is the assistant coach of Hammarby IF in Allsvenskan. Club career Breakthrough At age five, K ...

, Swedish footballer *

Imad Khamis Imad Mohammad Deeb Khamis ( ar, عماد محمد ديب خميس, ʿImād Muḥammad Dīb Khamīs; born 1 August 1961) is a Syrian politician who was Prime Minister of Syria from 2016 to 2020 under President Bashar al-Assad. Previously, he was ...

, Syrian politician *

Imad Kotbi Imad Kotbi ( ar, عماد قطبي) (born June 8, 1978) is a Moroccan radio presenter and a disk jockey. He was born in Casablanca, and is currently working for Casa FM radio station presenting a show called "Ze Kotbi Show". Kotbi is a Guinnes ...

, Moroccan radio presenter *

Emad Mohammed Emad Mohammed Ridha ( ar, عماد محمد رضا, born 24 July 1982) is a coach and former Iraqi football striker, currently managing Iraq U20. Club career On 25 June 2007, Emad renewed his contract with Sepahan for another season in a deal ...

, Iraqi footballer * Imad Rahman, Pakistani American fiction writer * Imad Rami, Syrian Nasheed singer *

Imad Wasim Syed Imad Wasim Haider (in Punjabi and ur, ; born 18 December 1988), commonly known as Imad Wasim, is a Pakistani international cricketer. He is a left-handed all-rounder. In August 2018, he was one of thirty-three players to be awarded a cen ...

, Pakistani international cricketer * Imad Feghaly, Lebanese actor and voice actor *

Imad Abullah Sarah Imad Abullah Sarah (born 1968) is a Syrian politician who served as Information Minister in the Imad Khamis government and First Hussein Arnous government The first government of Hussein Arnous was formed on 30 August 2020 and took the oath o ...

, Syrian politician

Imed

* Imed Abdelnabbi (born 1957), Egyptian chess player *

Imed Louati Imed Louati (born 11 October 1993) is a Tunisian professional footballer. Club career CS Sfaxien Louati started his football career with Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club CS Sfaxien in 2012. On 1 September 2012, he made his senior debut in a ...

(born 1993), Tunisian footballer * Imed Memmich (born 1966), Tunisian scholar and politician *

Imed Meniaoui Imed Meniaoui (born 19 April 1983) is a Tunisian football striker Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goal ...

(born 1983), Tunisian footballer *

Imed Mhedhebi Imed Mhedhebi or Mhadhbi ( ar, عماد المهذبى) (born 22 March 1976 in Tunis) is a former Tunisian football winger. He was a member of the Tunisian national team that participated at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and won the 2004 African Cup ...

(born 1976), Tunisian footballer *

Imed Ketata Imed Ketata is a Tunisian football player that plays defense. He formerly played for the Océano Club de Kerkennah, the Club Sportif Sfaxien, and the AS Djerba . Awards *Winner of the 2003 Tunisian League Cup The Coupe de la Ligue Professionell ...

, Tunisian footballer *

Imed Trabelsi Imed Trabelsi ( ar, عماد الطرابلسي; born August 26, 1974 in Tunis) is a businessman, politician, and favorite nephew of Leïla Ben Ali, the former First Lady of Tunisia, Trabelsi was formerly the mayor of La Goulette, Tunisia. Under ...

(born 1974), Tunisian businessman and politician *

Imed Ben Younes Imed Ben Younes ( ar, عماد بن يونس) (born 16 June 1974) is a Tunisian former football player and current coach. He played for a few clubs in Tunisia including Étoile Sahel and CS Sfaxien and played a single season at Qatari club Al- ...

(born 1974), Tunisian former football player and current coach

Surname

Mitra Emad Mitra C. Emad is an American anthropologist and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is known for her works on cultural constructions of the human body. Emad is a recipient of the Horace T. Morse-U ...

, American anthropologist *

Parvis Emad Parvis Emad (born September 4, 1935) is an Iranian-American philosopher and translator of Martin Heidegger's writings. He is the founder and co-editor of the journal '' Heidegger Studies''. Emad is a professor emeritus at DePaul University. Bib ...

, American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at DePaul University

Family origin

The Imad family is named for al-Amadiyyah, near Mosul in northern Iraq and, like the

Jumblatt family The Jumblatt family (, originally , meaning "steel-bodied" or "soul of steel"), also transliterated as Joumblatt and Junblat) is a prominent Druze family based in the Chouf area of Mount Lebanon that has dominated Druze politics since the 18th centu ...

, is thought to be of Kurdish origin.Origins of the Druze People and Religion, by Philip K. Hitti, 1924 Some unconfirmed sources allege that the roots of Family Imad ancestors are associated with those of Imad ad-Din Zengi (1087; † 1146), who was in turn the Atabeg of Mosul from 1127 to his death in 1146. Imad as a family name also indicates descent from the originally

Druze The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...

feudal Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in Middle Ages, medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a wa ...

family Al-Imad in the

Chouf Chouf (also spelled Shouf, Shuf or Chuf, in ''Jabal ash-Shouf''; french: La Montagne du Chouf) is a historic region of Lebanon, as well as an administrative district in the governorate (muhafazat) of Mount Lebanon. Geography Located south-east ...

region of Mount Lebanon.

References

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