Ala or Alaa (Arabic: علاء‘alā’[ʕæˈlæːʔ]) is an Arabic male given name meaning "elevation, exaltedness, highness, loftiness, sublimity" or "honor and glory, might, power, dignity" or "prestige, greatness, noble, high in rank" or "eminence, glorious, grandeur" or "high in position and status". However, the name could be used as a female given name.
Ala al-Din Atsiz (died 1214), Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty from 1213 to 1214
Ala al-Din Ali, last Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty, from 1214 to 1215
Kayqubad I or Alā ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykāvūs (1188–1237), Seljuq Sultan of Rûm
Ala al-Din Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qurashi al-Dimashq, or
Ibn al-Nafis, (1213–1288), Arab Muslim polymath
Alaâ, Tunisia, a town in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia
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