Ghazi

Ghazi or Gazi (Arabic: غازى), a title given to Muslim warriors or champions and used by several Ottoman Sultans, can be

  • Ghazi (warrior), an Islamic (word or) term for a Muslim soldier under some conditions
The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: ghazi.

Places

Afghanistan

Greece
  • Gazi, Athens, a neighborhood in Athens, Greece
  • Gazi, Crete, a town in Greece

Iran
  • Ghazi, Iran, a city in North Khorasan Province
  • Gazi, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
  • Ghazi Rural District, an administrative subdivision of North Khorasan Province, Iran
  • Gazi, Sistan and Baluchestan, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran

Kosovo
  • Gazimestan, a memorial site and monument dedicated to Gazi Evrenos in Pristina

Pakistan

Turkey

People

Given name
  • Ghazi of Iraq (1912–1939), king of the Kingdom of Iraq
  • Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad (born 1966), Jordanian prince and academic
  • Ghazi Aridi (born 1954), Lebanese politician
  • Gazi Evrenos (fl. 1345–1417), Ottoman military commander
  • Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi (1940–2010), Saudi Arabian politician, technocrat and novelist
  • Ghazi Honeini (born 1995), Lebanese footballer
  • Gazi Husrev-beg (1480–1541), Bosnian bey
  • Ghazi Khan, Baloch mercenary in Multan
  • Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud (1014-1034), Ghaznavid army general
  • Ghazi Muhammad (1793–1832), first imam of Dagestan, autonomous state of the Russian Federation
  • Ghazi Ajil al-Yawer (born 1958), former President of Iraq

Surname
  • Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506-1543), Imam and General of the Adal Sultanate
  • Badr Al Din Abu Ghazi (1920–1983), Egyptian art critic and writer
  • Emad Abu Ghazi (born 1955), Egyptian scholar
  • Ertuğrul Gazi (d. 1280), father of Osman Gazi
  • Habibullah Ghazi (1891–1929), Emir of Afghanistan
  • Osman Gazi (1299-1326), founder of the Ottoman dynasty

Other uses
  • PNS Ghazi, a Pakistan Navy submarine sunk in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, formerly known as USS Diablo (SS-479)
  • The Ghazi Attack, also known as Ghazi, a 2017 Indian war film


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