Salah (name)

Not to be confused with Saleh (name).

Salah (Arabic: صلاح, romanized: Ṣalāḥ, pronounced [sˤɑˈlɑːħ]) is a Biblical and an Arabic given name and family name. Its meaning in the Bible is 'mission', or 'sending', whereas the Arabic meaning is 'righteousness', 'goodness', or 'peace'.^[1]

Hebrew Bible

• Salah (biblical figure), an ancestor of the Israelites according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10

Arabic/Muslim traditional name

• Ibn al-Salah, a Shafi'i hadith scholar and author
• Salah ad-Din (name)
  • Saladin (Salah ad-Din), Kurdish sultan of Egypt and Syria who retook Jerusalem from the Crusaders

Arabic/Muslim given name

• Salah (dancer), full name Salah Benlemqawanssa, hip-hop dancer
• Salah Aboud Mahmoud, Iraqi former officer
• Salah Abdel Sabour, Egyptian poet, editor, playwright and essayist
• Salah Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian economist and ambassador
• Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi, Bahraini held in extrajudicial detention in the United States on suspicion of terrorism
• Salah Abu Seif, Egyptian film director
• Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat
• Salah Ali Al-Ghali, a governor of South Darfur
• Salah Amin, Egyptian footballer
• Salah Assad, Algerian footballer and sports manager
• Salah Bachir, Canadian philanthropist and businessman
• Salah Bakour, an Algerian footballer
• Salah Al Bandar, British-Sudanese known for role in revealing the Bandargate scandal in Bahrain
• Salah Bouchekriou, Algerian handball player and coach
• Salah Choudhury, Bangladeshi journalist
• Salah Dessouki, Egyptian Olympic fencer
• Salah Edin, real name Abid Tounssi, a Dutch Moroccan rapper
• Salah Ezzedine, Lebanese businessman accused of running a pyramid scheme
• Salah Gaham, Algerian French concierge who died during the 2005 civil unrest in France, see 2005 French riots#Salah Gaham's death
• Salah Goudjil, Algerian politician, belonging to the Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the National Liberation Front
• Salah Halabi, Egyptian army officer
• Salah Al-Hamdani, an Iraqi poet, actor and playwright
• Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
• Salah Jadid, Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party, and the country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970
• Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist
• Salah Khalaf (aka Abu Iyad), deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and a senior official of Fatah
• Salah Larbès, Algerian international footballer
• Salah Mansour, Egyptian film actor
• Salah Mohsen, Egyptian footballer
• Salah Mejri, Tunisian basketball player
• Salah Nasr, Egyptian former head of the country's General Intelligence Directorate
• Salah Omar al-Ali, former Iraqi politician, minister and ambassador
• Salah Qoqaiche, retired Moroccan long-distance marathon runner
• Salah Ragab, Egyptian drummer and jazz musician
• Salah Salem, Egyptian military officer and politician
• Salah Samadi, Algerian football player
• Salah Shehade, Palestinian Hamas movement member
• Salah Sid, Algerian-born British radio broadcaster, producer and voice-over artist
• Salah Soliman, Egyptian footballer
• Salah Stétié, Lebanese writer and poet who writes in the French language
• Salah Suheimat, Jordanian politician and Member of the Jordanian Parliament
• Salah Taher, Egyptian painter
• Salah Tarif, Druze Israeli politician who served as a member of the Israeli Knesset
• Salah Mohammed Tubaigy, Saudi Arabian forensics officer
• Salah Zulfikar, Egyptian actor and movie star
• Sallah, character from Indiana Jones.

Surname

Arabic/Muslim

• Dana Salah, Jordanian-Palestinian singer and songwriter
• Hussein Ahmed Salah, a Djibouti long distance runner athlete
• Kamal Salah, birth name of Sami Michael, an Iraqi-born Israeli Hebrew author
• Kamal Al Din Salah, an Egyptian diplomat
• Maha Naji Salah, a Yemeni writer and social activist
• Trish Salah, a Lebanese Canadian feminist writer, educator and sociologist
• Raed Salah, a Palestinian leader, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel

Football

• Arturo Salah, a Chilean former football player, manager and administrator
• Ibrahim Salah, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Zamalek and Egypt
• Luay Salah, an Iraqi football player, plays for Al-Zawra'a and has played for Iraq
• Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Liverpool and Egypt
• Mohamed Salah (footballer, born 1956), an Egyptian football manager and former footballer
• Yassine Salah, a Moroccan footballer

Jews

• Asher Salah, an Israeli historian, specialist and translator in Italian Hebrew literature
• Yiḥyah Salaḥ, known as the Maharitz, an 18th-century Yemenite rabbi, author and scholar

See also

• Beni Salah (disambiguation)
• Salah (disambiguation)
• Salah ad-Din (name)
• Saleh (name)