Imad
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While Imad (also written "EMAD") is a common Arabic male name and means in the military sense, the "Chief Commander" respectively "Top-Ranking Officer/General" the addition of "AL" at the beginning indicates clearly the originally Druze Feudal Family IMAD/Al-Imad in the Chouf region of Mount Lebanon.
[edit] Ethical 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.
[edit] References
- ^ Origins of the Druze People and Religion, by Philip K. Hitti, 1924
