Ghalib (

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: غالب ghālib) is an

masculine given name which generally means "to overcome, to defeat", also meaning "successor, victor". It may also be a

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and refer several notable people:

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 Umar Arteh Ghalib or Omer Carte Qalib (, ; 1930 – 18 November 2020) was a Somali politician. He was Prime Minister of the Somali Democratic Republic from January 24, 1991 to May 1993. Previously he served as Foreign Minister from 1969 to 1976. ...

(1930-2020), Somali politician and former

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* Sharif Ghalib (1961–), current Deputy Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva and

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of the Embassy of Afghanistan in

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Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (27 December 179715 February 1869), commonly known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Urdu language, he also produced a significant body of work in Persian. Ghali ...

(1797–1869) also known as ''Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan'' was a famous

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poet. His honorific was ''Dabir-ul-Mulk'' and Najm-ud-Daula. * Sohel Hasan Galib (born 1978),

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i poet

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

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sect in

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* Ghalib Efendi, former Sharif of Hejaz * Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla (born 1978), Los Angeles-based novelist * Ghaleb Zu'bi (born 1943), Jordanian lawyer and politician

Epithet

Al-Ghalib Abu'l-Fadl Muhammad ibn al-Qadir () better known by his regnal name al-Ghalib bi'llah (), 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 99 ...

billah also known as ''Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qadir'', was the son of

Al-Qadir Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ishaq (; 28 September 947 – 29 November 1031), better known by his regnal name al-Qadir (, , ), was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 991 to 1031. Born as an Abbasid prince outside the main line of succession, al-Qad ...

(r. 991–1031) and elder brother of Al-Qa'im (r. 1031–1075). He was nominated heir in 1001. * ''Al-Ghalib Billah'' (

: الْغَالِبُ بِالله ''al-ghālibu billah''; "The Victor by the Grace of

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od) or simply ''Al-Ghalib'' (

: الْغَالِب ''al-ghālib''), the honorific

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of founder and Sultan

Muhammad I of Granada Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Nasr (; 22 January 1273), also known as Ibn al-Ahmar (, ) and by his honorific al-Ghalib billah (, ), was the first ruler of the Emirate of Granada, the last independent Muslim state on the Iberian Peninsula, ...

of the

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Emirate of Granada The Emirate of Granada, also known as the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, was an Emirate, Islamic polity in the southern Iberian Peninsula during the Late Middle Ages, ruled by the Nasrid dynasty. It was the last independent Muslim state in Western ...