Ghanem is an Arabic masculine given name and a surname.
The Ghanem family is descended from Jafna ibn Amr of the Azd Dynasty, one of the oldest Pre-Islamic communities that inhabited southwestern Arabia, mainly Yemen, and the Al-Bahah and 'Asir provinces in Saudi Arabia. Following the Ma'rib dam break during the 3rd century, they scattered between modern-day Saudi Arabia and the Levant.
Jafna settled in Roman-ruled Syria and established the Kingdom of the Ghassanids, which disappeared in 635 when the area was conquered by Muslims. They were so named after a spring of water where they stopped on their way to Syria. His descendants adopted Christianity and became allied to the Byzantine Empire.
Meanwhile, his brother, Thalabah ibn Amr, settled in Hijaz and his descendants became the Ansaris, the local inhabitants of Medina who took the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers into their homes when they emigrated from Mecca during the Hijra.
In Lebanon, the family descends directly from Moussa Ghanem Al-Ghassani, a native of Al-Nabek, Syria and a descendant of the Ghassanid Dynasty, "Al-Ghassani" being Arabic for the Ghassanid. Moussa moved to Yanouh in the 9th century and settled there. In the following centuries, his descendants moved to other regions in Lebanon, including Lehfed, Jouret Bedran, among others.
"Ghanem" may refer to:
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