Imad
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Imad (also transliterated as Emad, Arabic: عماد, IPA: [ˈiːmaːd]) is a common Arabic male name and means pillar or support.
[edit] Given name
- Imad Abbas, Palestinian military commander
- Imad Baba, American soccer player
- Emad Hajjaj, Jordanian political cartoonist
- Emad al-Janabi, Iraqi blacksmith
- Imad Khalili, Swedish footballer
- Imad Kotbi, Moroccan radio presenter
- Emad Mohammed, Iraqi footballer
- Imad Rahman, Pakistani American fiction writer
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[edit] Family origin
The Imad family is named for al-Amadiyyah, near Mosul in northern Iraq, and, like the Jumblatt Family, is thought to be of Kurdish origin.[1]
Some unconfirmed sources alleged, that the roots of Family Imad ancestors are associated with those of Imad-Ad-Din Zengi (1087; † 1146), who was in turn the Atabeg of Mosul from 1127 until his death in 1146.
Imad as a family name also indicates descent from the originally Druze Feudal Family Al-Imad in the Chouf region of Mount Lebanon.
[edit] References
- ^ Origins of the Druze People and Religion, by Philip K. Hitti, 1924
