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[edit]

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Asadulla Al Galib (born 1998), Bangladeshi cricketer
Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and academic
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
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[edit]

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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
Ghaleb Zu'bi (born 1943), Jordanian lawyer and politician

Epithet[edit]

Al-Ghalib billah also known as Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qadir, 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