Jalal
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Jalal is an Arabic masculine given name. The word Jalal is also found in Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 and Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

 language dictionaries. And have near-similar meaning in all these 3 languages. The word Jalal (جلال), appears twice in Qur'an
Qur'an
The Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...

 as (ذو الجلال والإكرام), both in Surat al-Rahman, in verse number 27 and 78, as an attribute of Allah.

Given name

  • Jalal Talabani
    Jalal Talabani
    Jalal Talabani is the sixth and current President of Iraq, a leading Kurdish politician. He is the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Kareem Qasim was half Kurdish....

    ,
  • Shah Jalal
  • Jalal Zolfonun
    Jalal Zolfonun
    Jalal Zolfonun is a master of the setar, as well a composer and teacher of Persian music.-Biography:...

  • Jalal Hosseini
    Jalal Hosseini
    Seyyed Jalal Hosseini Khoshkebejari is an Iranian football player. He currently plays for the Iran's Premier Football League club Sepahan and Iran national football team as a Defender...

  • Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
    Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
    Jalal Al-e-Ahmad was a prominent Iranian writer, thinker, and social and political critic.-Personal life:...

     (1923-1969)
  • Jalal Akbari
    Jalal Akbari
    Jalal Akbari Kelishadi is an Iranian footballer. He plays as a Left Back and is currently a Free Agent.- Club career :Though he usually plays as a defender, in the IPL 2005/06 season, Akbari was one of the best goalscorers for Sepahan, scoring 6 goals in 26 appearances for the club.He always was a...

  • Jalal al-Daula
    Jalal al-Daula
    Abu Tahir Jalal al-Daula was the Buyid amir of Iraq . He was the son of Baha' al-Daula.In 1012 Jalal al-Daula's father died. His brother, Sultan al-Daula came to the throne and appointed him as governor of Basra. He ruled there up until Musharrif al-Daula, who had taken control of Iraq, died in...

     (993 or 994-1044)
  • Jalal Agha
    Jalal Agha
    Jalal Agha was an Indian actor and director in Bollywood films. Son of the popular comedian Agha, Jalal studied acting at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.-Career:...

  • Jalal Talebi


Family name

  • Ayesha Jalal
    Ayesha Jalal
    Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American sociologist and historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a 1998 MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia....

     , a Pakistani-American historian
  • Aziza Jalal
    Aziza Jalal
    -Career:Aziza Jalal is a native of Meknes, Morocco. She began singing professionally at the age of 14 on Moroccan TV. Encouraged by her family, she began her career by participating in talent shows. Her first appearance on television was in the show "Mawaheb"....

     (1958-), a Moroccan singer
  • Farida Jalal
    Farida Jalal
    - Career :Farida Jalal, a native of New Delhi, started her career in the 1960s, when she won the United Film Producers Talent Hunt sponsored by Filmfare. She usually played the sister or rejected fiancée of the male lead, but almost never the female lead...

     , a Bollywood Indian actress
  • Imrana Jalal
    Imrana Jalal
    Imrana Jalal, sometimes known as Patricia Jalal , is a Fijian lawyer and activist of Indian descent, who serves as a human rights advisor to the United Nations Development Program and as a member of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of sixty eminent judges and lawyers, to which she...

     , a Fijian lawyer and activist of Indian descent
  • Massouda Jalal
    Massouda Jalal
    Massouda Jalal is a politician in Afghanistan, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs from October 2004 to July 2006. She was also the only woman candidate in theAfghan presidential election, 2004...

     (1962-), the only woman candidate in the 2004 Afghan presidential election
  • Sayed Hasmat Jalal (1957-), an Indian poet and journalist
  • Sayed Mahmood Jalal
    Sayed Mahmood Jalal
    Sayed Mahmood Jalal is a Bahraini footballer currently playing with Al Muharraq Club of Bahrain and the Bahrain national football team....

     (1980-), a Bahraini footballer
  • Shwan Jalal
    Shwan Jalal
    Shwan Saman Jalal is a footballer who plays for Bournemouth as a goalkeeper. He played for the England C team from 2005 to 2006.-Club career:...

    (1983-), an Iraqi-English football goalkeeper
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