Jarrah (name)
Jarrah (Arabic: جراح, romanized: Jarrāḥ) is an Arabic name. The name Jarrah means 'surgeon' in Arabic. The root of the word is derived from the Arabic word "جرح" (jarh), meaning "injury." It is a common surname in the Levant, especially in Palestine and Lebanon. It may refer to:
Empires
- Jarrahids, an Arab dynasty that ruled over much of Palestine between the 10th and 12th century
Given name
- al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah, Umayyad governor and general
- Jarah Al Ateeqi, Kuwaiti footballer
- Cerrah Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman statesman
- Jarrah McCleary, Australian member of Panama (band)
Surname
- Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah (583–639), military leader and companion of Muhammad
- Ali Jarrah, Ghanaian Professional footballer
- Ali ibn Isa ibn al-Jarrah (859-946), Abbasid official
- Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi (d 1202), Palestinian emir and personal physician of Saladin
- Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrah, emir in Jarrahid dynasty who expanded the tribe's rule to much of Palestine
- Nouri al-Jarrah, Syrian poet
- Rami Jarrah, Syrian Political Activist
- Waki' ibn al-Jarrah (d 812), prominent Hanafi hadith scholar and ascetic
- Ziad Jarrah (1975-2001), Lebanese terrorist and 9/11 hijacker
Fictional characters
- Sayid Jarrah, character on the television series Lost
See also
- Jarrah (disambiguation)
- Jarrah, common species of Eucalyptus tree
- Jarrah (surgeon), Arabic word for surgeon
- Idiosoma jarrah, species of spider
- Sheikh Jarrah, Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem
- Sheikh Jarrah property dispute, part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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