All articles starting with M

Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi

Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi (محمد الیاس کاندھلوی) was an Indian Islamic scholar, born around 1885, who founded the Tablighi Jamaat lay preaching movement in Delhi in 1926.

Muhammad in Islam

Muhammad, known in Arabic as مُحَمَّد, is in Islamic belief the final prophet and messenger of God, who received the Quran and whose sunna guides Muslim practice.

Muhammad in Mecca

Muhammad in Mecca covers the first phase of the prophet of Islam's career, from his first revelations around 610 CE until his emigration, the Hijra, to Medina.

Muhammad Iqbal (محمد اقبال)

Muhammad Iqbal, known as Allama Iqbal, was a poet and philosopher in British India, born in Sialkot, whose idea of a Muslim homeland helped create Pakistan.

Muhammad Irfan

Muhammad Irfan is an economist and management scholar working on energy economics and green finance, a full professor at Shandong Management University in Jinan, China, since 2024.

Muhammad Isma'il al-Bardisi

Muhammad Isma'il al-Bardisi (محمد إسماعيل البرديسي) was an Egyptian jurist who served as the fifth Grand Mufti of Egypt from 1920 until his death in 1921.

Muhammad Ismail Darwish (محمد إسماعيل درويش)

Muhammad Ismail Darwish (محمد إسماعيل درويش), aka Abu Omar Hassan, born Lebanon 1962, chairs Hamas's Shura Council and nominally heads its five-member temporary leadership committee; EU-sanctioned Political Bureau member and diplomatic envoy to Turkey and Iran.

Oct 22, 2026

Muhammad IV of Morocco

Muhammad IV of Morocco (محمد الرابع) was sultan from 1859 to 1873, the twelfth ruler of the Alawi dynasty, known for launching military, administrative, and educational reforms.

Muhammad Kazim

Muhammad Kazim (محمد کاظم), also called Mirza Muhammad Kazim, was a Persian-language historian at Aurangzeb's court who wrote the Alamgirnama, the official history of the reign's first ten years.

Sep 24, 2026

Muhammad Khan

Muhammad Khan (محمد خان) was a puppet Ilkhan of the Mongol Ilkhanate in Iran, placed on the throne by the Jalayirid amir Shaykh Hasan Buzurg and killed by the Chubanids in 1338.

Muhammad Khan Bangash (محمد خان بنگش)

Muhammad Khan Bangash (محمد خان بنگش), Nawab Ghazanfar Jang (1665–1743), a Bangash Afghan who founded Farrukhabad in 1714 and served the Mughals as governor of Allahabad and Malwa.

Muhammad Khatami (سید محمد خاتمی)

Seyyed Mohammad Khatami (سید محمد خاتمی), born 1943 in Ardakan, is an Iranian cleric and the fifth president of Iran (1997–2005), whose reformist platform of civil society and dialogue among civilizations won about 70% in 1997 before conservative institutions blocked his agenda.

Muhammad Khatir

Muhammad Khatir (محمد خاطر محمد الشيخ) was an Egyptian Azhar-trained jurist who served as Grand Mufti of Egypt from 1970 to 1978, under President Anwar Sadat.

Muhammad Kurd Ali

Muhammad Kurd Ali (محمد كرد علي) was a Syrian scholar and writer who founded the journal al-Muqtabas and led the Arab Academy of Damascus from 1919 until his death in 1953.

Muhammad Ma'mun al-Shinnawi

Muhammad Ma'mun al-Shinnawi (محمد مأمون الشناوي) was an Egyptian religious scholar who served as Grand Imam of al-Azhar from January 1948 until his death in office in September 1950.

Muhammad Mahabat Khanji III

Muhammad Mahabat Khanji III (محمد مہابت خان سوم) was the last ruling Nawab of Junagadh, a princely state of British India, reigning from 1911 to 1947.

Muhammad Mahdi al-Basir

Muhammad Mahdi al-Basir (محمد مهدي البصير) was an Iraqi poet, orator, and professor of Arabic literature, blinded in childhood, who agitated in the 1920 revolt against British occupation.

Oct 22, 2026

Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri

Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (محمد مهدي الجواهري) was an Iraqi poet and journalist, often called the last of the classical Arab poets, born in Najaf around 1899 and died in exile in Syria in 1997.

Muhammad Mahmood Alam (محمد محمود عالم)

Muhammad Mahmood Alam, known as M. M. Alam, was a Pakistani fighter pilot credited by the Pakistan Air Force with nine kills, including five Hunters in under a minute, during the 1965 war.

Sep 21, 2026

Muhammad Mamdani

Muhammad Mamdani, also known as Muhammad M. Mamdani, is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiology and drug policy researcher who directs the University of Toronto's T-CAIREM center for artificial intelligence in medicine.

Muhammad Mokaev (Мухаммад Мокаев)

Muhammad Mokaev (Мухаммад Мокаев), "The Punisher", Dagestan-born British flyweight MMA fighter, 17-0 professional, ex-UFC (7-0), inaugural BRAVE CF flyweight world champion, refugee who settled in Wigan/Manchester.

Muhammad Mumin

Muhammad Mumin (محمد مؤمن), known as Hakim Mumin, was a Persian physician and pharmacologist at the court of Shah Sulayman I who wrote the pharmacopoeia Tuhfat al-Mu'minin, completed in 1669.

Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghi

Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghi (1881–1945) was an Egyptian jurist and reformer who served twice as Grand Imam of al-Azhar and led efforts to reform its teaching and law.

Muhammad Naimov

Muhammad Naimov (Muhammadjon Mahmudovic Naimov, "Hillman"), Tajikistani UFC featherweight born 1994 in Kulob; 13-5 pro, 5-3 in UFC, debut June 2023 TKO of Mullarkey, Elevation Fight Team.

Muhammad of Ghor

Muhammad of Ghor (Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad ibn Sam, c. 1149–1206), Ghurid sultan of Ghazna, won the second battle of Tarain (1192) over Prithviraj Chauhan, conquered northern India to Bengal, and his commanders founded the Delhi Sultanate.

Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz

Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz (محمد پاشای رواندز), also called Mir Muhammad, was the emir of the Kurdish Soran Emirate, ruling from 1814 until the Ottomans removed him in 1838.

Muhammad Qasim Firishta

Muhammad Qasim Firishta (محمد قاسم فرشتہ), born at Astarabad in Persia around 1570, was a historian at the Ahmadnagar and Bijapur courts who wrote the Tarikh-i Firishta.

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (محمد قلی قطب شاہ) was the fifth sultan of Golconda's Qutb Shahi dynasty, reigning 1580 to 1611 or 1612, and founded the city of Hyderabad.