Ghulam

Ghulam (Template:Lang-ar) is an Arabic word meaning servant, boy, youth. It is used to describe young servants in paradise. It is also used to refer to slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman and to a lesser extent, Mughal empires, as described in the article Ghilman, which is the plural form of the word.

It can be used as the first element of a Muslim male given name, meaning servant of .., or as an independent name. Particular uses as a name element are:

Compound names listed on further pages

• Ghulam Abbas
• Ghulam Ahmad, also Ghulam Ahmed
• Ghulam Ali
• Ghulam Dastagir
• Ghulam Farid
• Ghulam Faruq
• Ghulam Haider, also Ghulam Haidar
• Ghulam Hassan
• Ghulam Hussain also Gholam Hossein etc.
• Ghulam Mohammad, also Ghulam Mohammed, Ghulam Muhammad etc.
• Ghulam Mohiuddin, also other spellings
• Ghulam Murtaza
• Ghulam Mustafa
• Ghulam Nabi
• Ghulam Rabbani
• Ghulam Rasul, also Ghulam Rasool
• Gholam Reza

Individual people, given compound name

• Jassim Ghulam Al-Hamd (born 1979), Iraqi footballer
• Ghulam Azam (born 1922), Bangladeshi Islamist political leader
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915–2006), President of Pakistan
• Ghulam Mansoor (born 1812), in 1867 was Subedar-Major at Bhopal State
• Ghulam Murshid, Bangladeshi author, scholar and journalist, based in London
• Ghulam Qadir Khan (1920-1988), last ruler of the State of Las Bela in Balochistan, Pakistan
• Arbab Ghulam Rahim (born 1957), Pakistani politician
• Ghulam Raziq (born 1932), Pakistani hurdler
• Ghulam Sediq Wardak

Surname

• Nabil Gholam (born 1962), Lebanese architect
• Ali Gholam (born 1981), Iranian footballer
• Sara Ghulam (born 1989), Canadian model

Places

• Ghulam Khan

Other uses

• Ghulam (film), 1998, starring Aamir Khan and Rani Mukherjee

See also

• Ghilman, young servants in paradise or slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman and to a lesser extent, Mughal empires.