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Muhammad Bayram V

Muhammad Bayram V (محمد بيرم الخامس) was a Tunisian Hanafi scholar, historian, and journalist who ran Tunisia's official press and wrote against French occupation from exile in Egypt.

Muhammad Bello

Muhammad Bello, also known as Muhammadu Bello, was the second ruler of the Sokoto Caliphate in north-western Nigeria, son of founder Usman dan Fodio, reigning from 1817 to 1837.

Muhammad Bey al-Alfi

Muhammad Bey al-Alfi (محمد بك الألفي) was a Mamluk chief in Egypt who led one of two main Mamluk factions after the French campaign and sought British support, dying in 1807.

Muhammad Bey al-Daftardar (محمد بك الدفتردار) was an Ottoman Egyptian statesman and general, son-in-law of Muhammad Ali Pasha, who led the 1821 conquest of Kordofan and governed Sudan with notorious severity.

Muhammad bin Abd al-Kabir al-Kattani

Muhammad bin Abd al-Kabir al-Kattani (محمد بن عبد الكبير الكتاني) was a Moroccan Sufi shaykh who revived the Kattaniyya order and led anti-French resistance in Fez.

Muhammad bin Ladin (محمد بن عوض بن لادن)

Muhammad bin Ladin, also known as Muhammad bin Awad bin Ladin, was a Yemeni-born contractor who founded the Saudi Binladin Group and built Saudi Arabia's holiest mosques.

Muhammad bin Nayef

Muhammad bin Nayef (محمد بن نايف, born 1959), Saudi prince and grandson of King Abdulaziz; Interior Minister 2012, Crown Prince 2015, led counterterrorism against al-Qaida; removed June 2017, detained since.

Muhammad bin Tughluq (محمد بن تغلق)

Muhammad bin Tughluq (محمد بن تغلق), sultan of Delhi 1325–1351, second Tughluq ruler; expanded the sultanate to 23 provinces, moved the capital to Daulatabad, and issued a failed copper token currency.

Sep 19, 2026

Muhammad Fajrin Rasyid

Muhammad Fajrin Rasyid, born in 1986, is an Indonesian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Bukalapak, served as its CFO and President, and joined Telkom Indonesia in 2020.

Muhammad Fal Ould Oumeir

Muhammad Fal Ould Oumeir (محمد فال ولد عمير) was a Mauritanian politician and claimant to the emirate of Trarza who died in exile in Dakar in 1965.

Muhammad Farid

Muhammad Farid (محمد فريد) was an Egyptian politician and jurist who led the National Party from 1908, was driven into exile in 1912, and died in Berlin in 1919.

Muhammad Gaddafi (محمد معمر القذافي)

Muhammad Gaddafi, also known as Muhammad Muammar Gaddafi, is a Libyan businessman born in 1970, eldest son of Muammar Gaddafi, who chaired Libya's state telecom operators before the 2011 uprising.

Muhammad Gasa

Muhammad Gasa was the name shared by two brothers who led the Muslim imamate in the Horn of Africa, moving its seat from Harar to Awsa in 1577.

Muhammad Ghaus

Muhammad Ghaus (محمد غوث), a Sufi master of the Shattari order at Gwalior, helped Babur take Gwalior's fort in 1526 and served emperors Babur and Humayun.

Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal

Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal was a Somali politician who served as prime minister of the Somali Republic and as the second president of Somaliland from 1993 to 2002.

Muhammad Haji Salleh

Muhammad Haji Salleh (born 1942) is a Malaysian poet, translator, and scholar who writes in Malay and English, named National Laureate in 1991 and author of Puitika Sastera Melayu.

Muhammad Hakim Bi

Muhammad Hakim Bi (محمد حکیم بی) was a Bukharan statesman of the Manghit tribe who served Abu'l-Fayz Khan as ataliq and arbitrated Bukhara's 1740 submission to Nadir Shah.

Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi

Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi (محمد حسن النجفي), titled Sahib al-Jawahir, was a Twelver Shia jurist of Najaf, Iraq, who wrote the encyclopedic legal commentary Jawahir al-Kalam.

Muhammad Hassan (wrestler)

Muhammad Hassan, portrayed by Marc Copani, was a controversial 2004-2005 WWE Arab-American heel character removed from TV after a terrorist-themed Undertaker angle aired on the day of the July 7, 2005 London bombings.

Muhammad Hayat al-Sindi

Muhammad Hayat al-Sindi (محمد حياة السندي) was a Sindhi hadith scholar who held the teaching chair at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina until his death in 1750.

Muhammad Haydar (مُحَمَّد حيدر)

Muhammad Haydar (محمد حيدر, kunya Abu Ali), born 1959 in Kabrika, Lebanon, is a US-designated Hezbollah Jihad Council figure, former Marjayoun–Hasbaya MP (2005–2009), targeted by a reported 23 November 2024 Beirut airstrike.

Muhammad Husain Azad

Muhammad Husain Azad (محمد حسین آزاد), 1830 to 1910, was an Urdu poet and literary historian in Lahore, known for Aab-e-Hayat, the first modern history of Urdu literature.

Muhammad Husayn Haykal

Muhammad Husayn Haykal (محمد حسين هيكل) was an Egyptian novelist, journalist, and politician who wrote Zaynab (1914), long treated as the first mature Arabic novel.

Muhammad I of Granada

Muhammad I of Granada (محمد الأول), known as Ibn al-Ahmar, was the founder and first sultan of the Nasrid dynasty of Granada, ruling from 1232 until his death in 1273.

Muhammad I Tapar

Muhammad I Tapar (Ghiyath ad-Din Mehmed I Tapar) was sultan of the Great Seljuk Empire from 1105 to 1118, ending a civil war with his half-brother Barkiyaruq.

Oct 10, 2026

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Zanjawayh al-Baghdadi

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Zanjawayh al-Baghdadi (محمد بن عبد الملك بن زنجويه البغدادي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter of ninth-century Baghdad who heard from Ahmad ibn Hanbal.

Sep 25, 2026

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Zawawi

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Zawawi (الزواوي) was a fifteenth-century North African Sufi who trained in Bougie and Cairo and recorded 109 dream conversations with the Prophet Muhammad in a diary.

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (محمد بن عبد الوهاب), 1703–1792, was a Hanbali jurist of central Arabia whose 1744 pact with Muhammad ibn Saud created the first Saudi state.

Oct 10, 2026

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Juzjani

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Juzjani is a name attributed to a putative official whose existence, patron, offices, and dates are unverified; the nisba al-Juzjani points to origins in Juzjan (Guzgan) in Khurasan.