Ghulam

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Ghulam (Arabic: غلام) is an Arabic word meaning servant, assistant, boy, or youth. It is used to describe young servants in paradise. It is also used to refer to slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid 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, in modern times, as an independent surname.

People with the given name[]

• Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), Indian religious leader
• Jassim Ghulam Al-Hamd (born 1979), Iraqi footballer
• Ghulam Azam (born 1922), Bangladeshi Islamist political leader
• Ghulam Bombaywala, Pakistani-American restaurateur
• Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt (1878–1960), Pakistani wrestler known as "The Great Gama"
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915–2006), President of Pakistan
• Ghulam Mansoor (born 1812), Subedar-Major at Bhopal State in 1867
• Ghulam Murshid, Bangladeshi author, scholar and journalist
• 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 Nabi Azad (born 1949) Indian politician
• Ghulam Sediq Wardak (born 1942), Afghan peasant inventor

People with the surname[]

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

See also[]

• Ghilman, young servants in paradise or slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid and to a lesser extent, Mughal empires
• Ghulam Khan, town in North Waziristan, Pakistan
• Ghulam Abbas
• Ghulam Ahmad, also Ghulam Ahmed
• Ghulam Ali
• Ghulam Dastagir
• Ghulam Farid
• Ghulam Faruq
• Ghulam Hassan
• Ghulam Haider
• 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

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