A ghazi ( Arabic : غازي , Arabic pronunciation: [ɣaːziː] , plural ġuzāt ) is an individual who participated in ghazw ( غزو , ġazw ), meaning military expeditions or raids. The latter term was applied in early Islamic literature to expeditions led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad , and later taken up by Turkic military leaders to describe their wars of conquest.
31-558: [REDACTED] Look up ghazi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ghazi or Gazi (Arabic: غازى ), a title given to Muslim warriors or champions and used by several Ottoman Sultans, may refer to: Ghazi (warrior) , an Islamic term for the Muslim soldier who come wounded from battle. People [ edit ] Given name [ edit ] Ghazi of Iraq (1912–1939), King of
62-668: A form of warfare, the razzia was then mimicked by the Christian states of Iberia in their relations with the taifa states; rough synonyms and similar tactics are the Iberian cavalgada and the Anglo-French chevauchée . The word razzia was used in French colonial context particularly for raids to plunder and capture slaves from among the people of Western and Central Africa , also known as rezzou when practiced by
93-943: A similar meaning to Mujahid or "one who struggles". The verbal noun of ġazā is ġazw or ġazawān , with the meaning 'raiding'. A derived singulative in ġazwah refers to a single battle or raid. The term ghāzī dates to at least the Samanid period , where he appears as a mercenary and frontier fighter in Khorasan and Transoxiana . Later, up to 20,000 of them took part in the Indian campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni . Ghāzī warriors depended upon plunder for their livelihood, and were prone to brigandage and sedition in times of peace. The corporations into which they organized themselves attracted adventurers, zealots and religious and political dissidents of all ethnicities. In time, though, soldiers of Turkic ethnicity predominated, mirroring
124-671: A town Dera Ghazi Khan District Turkey [ edit ] Gaziantep , a city in Turkey Gazi University Other uses [ edit ] 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 See also [ edit ] Gazi (disambiguation) Gaza (disambiguation) Khasi (disambiguation) Razzia (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
155-846: A town in Greece Iran [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Gazimestan , a memorial site and monument dedicated to Gazi Evrenos in Pristina Pakistan [ edit ] Ghazi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ,
186-517: Is Dera Ghazi Khan . The district lies to the west of the Indus River . The Sulaiman Mountains rise to a height of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in the north of the district. Popular tourist destinations are Fort Munro , Yakbai Hill station and Mubarki Top. The district is divided into three tehsils which are divided into a total of sixty Union Councils : (km²) (2023) (ppl/km²) (2023) (2023) The region around Dera Ghazi Khan
217-452: Is considered one of the 20 poorest districts of Pakistan with about 51% of its population living under the poverty line. At the 2017 census, Dera Ghazi Khan district had 339,202 households and a population of 2,872,631. Dera Ghazi Khan had a sex ratio of 979 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 46.67% - 59.15% for males and 34.26% for females. 546,221 (19.01%) lived in urban areas. 979,674 (34.10%) were under 10 years of age. In 2023,
248-457: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ghazi (warrior) In the context of the wars between Russia and the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus , starting as early as the late 18th century's Sheikh Mansur 's resistance to Russian expansion, the word usually appears in the form gazavat ( газават ). In English-language literature,
279-614: The Battle of Manzikert these incursions intensified, and the region's people would see the ghāzī corporations coalesce into semi- chivalric fraternities, with the white cap and the club as their emblems. The height of the organizations would come during the Mongol conquest when many of them fled from Persia and Turkistan into Anatolia. As organizations, the ghazi corporations were fluid, reflecting their popular character, and individual ghāzī warriors would jump between them depending upon
310-454: The Tuareg . The word was adopted from ġaziya of Algerian Arabic vernacular and later became a figurative name for any act of pillage, with its verb form razzier . Ghazi ( Arabic : غازي , ġāzī ) is an Arabic word, the active participle of the verb ġazā , meaning 'to carry out a military expedition or raid'; the same verb can also mean 'to strive for' and Ghazi can thus share
341-513: The ghazw often appears as razzia , a borrowing through French from Maghrebi Arabic . In modern Turkish , gazi is used to refer to veterans , and also as a title for Turkic Muslim champions such as Ertuğrul and Osman I . In pre-Islamic Bedouin culture, ghazw[a] was a form of limited warfare verging on brigandage that avoided head-on confrontations and instead emphasized raiding and looting, usually of livestock (see cattle raiding ). The Umayyad -period Bedouin poet al-Kutami wrote
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#1732766297636372-738: The ghazw' s function was to weaken the enemy's defenses in preparation for his eventual conquest and subjugation. Because the typical ghazw raiding party often did not have the size or strength to seize military or territorial objectives, this usually meant sudden attacks on weakly defended targets (e.g. villages) with the intent of demoralizing the enemy and destroying material which could support their military forces. Though Islam's rules of warfare offered protection to non-combatants such as women, monastics and peasants in that they could not be slain, their property could still be looted or destroyed, and they themselves could be abducted and enslaved ( Cambridge History of Islam , p. 269): A good source on
403-650: The terrorist attacks on Paris in November 2015 , the Islamic State group is said to have referred to its actions as "ghazwa". In modern Turkey, gazi is used to refer to veterans. 19 September is celebrated as Veterans Day in Turkey. Dera Ghazi Khan District Dera Ghazi Khan ( Urdu : ضلع ڈيره غازى خان , Saraiki : ضلع دیرہ غازی خان ) is a district in Punjab, Pakistan . Its administrative capital
434-788: 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
465-601: The Ottoman dynasty Abdul Rashid Ghazi (1964–2007), Islamic fundamentalist and Chancellor Faridia University Moosa Ghazi , (1938–2003), Pakistani footballer Abid Ghazi , (1935–2013), Pakistani footballer Places [ edit ] Afghanistan [ edit ] Ghazi Stadium , multi-purpose stadium in Kabul Greece [ edit ] Gazi, Athens , a neighborhood in Athens, Greece Gazi, Crete ,
496-585: The Prophet's journeys from Medina, whether to make peace treaties and preach Islam to the tribes, to go on ʽumrah , to pursue enemies who attacked Medina, or to engage in the nine battles. Muhammad participated in 27 Ghazwa. The first Ghazwa he participated in was the Invasion of Waddan in August 623, he ordered his followers to attack a Quraysh caravan. When performed within the context of Islamic warfare,
527-672: The Russian Federation Ghazi Ajil al-Yawer (born 1958), former President of Iraq Surname [ edit ] Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506-1543), Imam and General of the Adal Empire. Badr Al Din Abu Ghazi (1920–1983), Egyptian art critic and writer Emad Abu Ghazi (born 1955), Egyptian scholar Ertuğrul Gazi (died c. 1280), father of Osman Gazi Habibullah Ghazi (1891–1929), Emir of Afghanistan Osman Gazi (1299-1326), founder of
558-646: The Russian military operations declared a gazawat (understood as holy war) against the Russian Orthodox invasion. Although it is not known for certain, it is believed that Dagestani Islamic scholar Muhammad al-Yaraghi was the ideologist of this holy war. In 1825, a congress of ulema in the village of Yarag declared gazawat against the Russians. Its first leader was Ghazi Muhammad ; after his death, Imam Shamil would eventually continue it. After
589-525: The acquisition of Mamluks, Turkic slaves in the Mamluk retinues and guard corps of the caliphs and emirs and in the ranks of the ghazi corporation, some of whom would ultimately rise to military and later political dominance in various Muslim states. In the west, Turkic ghāzīs made continual incursions along the Byzantine frontier zone , finding in the akritai ( akritoi ) their Greek counterparts. After
620-548: The beginnings of their state: Ottoman historian Ahmedi in his work explain the meaning of Ghazi: A Ghazi is the instrument of the religion of Allah, a servant of God who purifies the earth from the filth of polytheism. The Ghazi is the sword of God, he is the protector and the refuge of the believers. If he becomes a martyr in the ways of God, do not believe that he has died, he lives in beatitude with Allah, he has eternal life. The first nine Ottoman chiefs all used Ghazi as part of their full throne name (as with many other titles,
651-636: The conduct of the traditional ghazw raid are the medieval Islamic jurists, whose discussions as to which conduct is allowed and which is forbidden in the course of warfare reveal some of the practices of this institution. One such source is Averroes ' Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa-Nihāyat al-Muqtasid (translated in Peters, Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam: A Reader , Chapter 4). In the 19th century, Muslim fighters in North Caucasus who were resisting
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#1732766297636682-414: The district had 454,711 households and a population of 3,393,705. As per the 2023 census, the vast majority of the population was Muslim and made up nearly the entire population with 99.67%. Christians made up the largest minority (0.27%), followed by Ahmadis (0.05%) with Hindus and Sikhs making up the rest. group Languages of Dera Ghazi Khan district (2023) At the time of the 2023 census, 81.55% of
713-601: The field against non-Moslem enemies; thus it was conferred on Osman Pasha after his famous defence of Plevna in Bulgaria and on Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later known as Atatürk) for leading the victory in the Battle of the Sakarya . Some Muslim rulers (in Afghanistan) personally used the subsidiary style Padshah-i-Ghazi . Ghazwah , which literally means "campaigns", is typically used by biographers to refer to all
744-484: The honorific title of ghāzī was assumed by those Muslim rulers who showed conspicuous success in extending the domains of Islam, and eventually the honorific became exclusive to them, much as the Roman title imperator became the exclusive property of the supreme ruler of the Roman state and his family. The Ottomans were probably the first to adopt this practice, and in any case the institution of ghazw reaches back to
775-543: The nomination was added even though it did not fit the office), and often afterwards. However, it never became a formal title within the ruler's formal style, unlike Sultan ul-Mujahidin , used by Sultan Murad Khan II Khoja-Ghazi, 6th Sovereign of the House of Osman (1421–1451), styled 'Abu'l Hayrat, Sultan ul-Mujahidin, Khan of Khans, Grand Sultan of Anatolia and Rumelia, and of the Cities of Adrianople and Philippolis. Because of
806-420: The oft-quoted verses: "Our business is to make raids on the enemy, on our neighbor and our own brother, in the event we find none to raid but a brother." William Montgomery Watt hypothesized that Muhammad found it useful to divert this continuous internecine warfare toward his enemies, making it the basis of his war strategy; according to Watt, the celebrated battle of Badr started as one such razzia . As
837-592: The political legitimacy that would accrue to those bearing this title, Muslim rulers vied amongst themselves for preeminence in the ghāziya , with the Ottoman Sultans generally acknowledged as excelling all others in this feat: Ghazi was also used as a title of honor in the Ottoman Empire, generally translated as the Victorious, for military officers of high rank, who distinguished themselves in
868-635: The possession of the British after the Sikh War in 1849 and was divided into two districts: Dera Ghazi Khan and Dera Ismail Khan . After the independence , many of the city's Hindu residents settled in Derawal Nagar colony of Delhi , India . The district of Rajanpur was later carved out of the Dera Ghazi Khan district. Based on the surveys of 2004–2005, Dera Ghazi Khan district
899-399: The prestige and success of a particular emir , rather like the mercenary bands around western condottiere . It was from these Anatolian territories conquered during the ghazw that the Ottoman Empire emerged, and in its legendary traditions it is said that its founder, Osman I , came forward as a ghāzī thanks to the inspiration of Shaikh Ede Bali. In later periods of Islamic history
930-573: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ghazi . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghazi&oldid=1256631499 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Bengali Muslim surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Arabic-language text Short description
961-636: Was inhabited by Mallian people in late antiquity. Then it was part of wide Multan region. The town of Dera Ghazi Khan was founded at the close of the 15th century and named after Nawab Ghazi Khan Mirani , son of Nawab Haji Khan Mirani, the city was founded when Shah Hussain of the Langah Sultanate of Multan invited the Baloch people to settle the region. Together with two other Deras i.e. settlements, Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Fateh Khan , it gave its name to Derajat . Derajat eventually came into