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