Ghulam __socratesPageHistoryEdit Visual Text GHULAM غلام pl. ghilmah. A boy under age. A term used in modern Muslim for a slave, the legal word being abd. It occurs in the Qur'an for a son. Surah iii 42: "She (Mary) said, 'How can I have a son when a man has not touched me?" Based on <a href="https://www.juancole.com/library/dictionary-of-islam-hughes">Hughes, Dictionary of Islam</a> CancelTweetShareRedditEmail