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Jamal ad-Din

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ1261977 ↗
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Jamal ad-Din, Jamal ud-Din or Jamal al-Din (Arabic: جمال الدين), meaning 'Beauty of the Faith', is a male Muslim name formed from the elements Jamal and ad-Din. In Egyptian pronunciation it appears as Gamal el-Din or in similar forms. In Bosnian usage it is usually written Džemaludin. It may also refer to:

Government and politics

Jamal ad-Din I (1325), Sultan of the Ifat Sultanate

Jamal al-Din al-Ustadar (died 1411), emir in Egypt

Jamal ad-Din II (died 1433), 3rd Sultan of the Adal Empire

Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838–1897), Islamic political activist

Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi (1848–1917), senior judge of the Ottoman Empire

Djamaluddin Malik (1917–1970), Indonesian film producer and politician

Jamaluddin Jarjis (1951–2015), Malaysian politician

Ahmed Gamal El-Din Moussa (born 1951), Egyptian politician and lawyer

Gamal El Deen Muhammad Hosni Sayed Mubarak, or just Gamal Mubarak (born 1963), Egyptian politician

Iyad Jamal Al-Din (born 1961), Iraqi politician

Abdel Ahad Gamal El Din, Egyptian politician

Khairy Jamaluddin (born 1976), Malaysian politician

Jamaludin Malik (born 1989), Indonesian politician

Sports

Džemaludin Mušović (born 1944), Bosnian football manager

Džemaludin or Džemal Hadžiabdić (born 1963), Bosnian footballer

Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (born 1964), Uzbek racing cyclist

Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov (born 1996), Russian footballer

Jameleddine Limam (born 1967), Tunisian footballer

Jamaluddin (cricketer) (born 1985), Pakistani cricketer

Jamaluddin Ahmed (born 1977), Bangladeshi cricketer

Rifat Zhemaletdinov (born 1996), Russian footballer

Timur Zhamaletdinov (born 1997), Russian footballer

Writers

Jamal-ud-Din Hansvi (c. 1187–c. 1261), Afghan scholar, poet, Sufi

Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin al-Amir Sayf al-Din Taghribirdi, or just Ibn Taghribirdi (1410–1470), Egyptian historian

Djamaluddin Adinegoro (1904–1967), Indonesian journalist

Jamal-ud-din Abro, or just Jamal Abro (1924–2004), Sindhi writer

Yousef Gamal El-Din (born 1985), Swiss-Egyptian journalist and television personality

Other

Jamal ad-Din Bukhari (fl. 1260s), Persian astronomer

Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut (fl.

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