Ghalib (name) explained

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 (1930-2020), 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

• 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

• 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