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Muhammad Rahim Khan I
Muhammad Rahim Khan I (1775–1825) was the second khan of the Khiva Khanate from the Uzbek Qungrat dynasty, ruling 1806 to 1825 after succeeding his brother Eltuzar and unifying Khorezm.
Muhammad Rahim Khan II
Muhammad Rahim Khan II, who wrote poetry as Feruz, was Khan of Khiva from 1864 to 1910 and led a celebrated literary court in Central Asia.
Muhammad Rashid Rida
Muhammad Rashid Rida (محمد رشيد رضا) was a Syrian-born Islamic scholar who published the reformist journal al-Manar in Cairo from 1898 until his death in 1935.
Muhammad Raza Hayat Harraj
Muhammad Raza Hayat Harraj is a Pakistani politician who serves as Federal Minister for Defence Production and is a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Muhammad Rida al-Shabibi
Muhammad Rida al-Shabibi (محمد رضا الشبيبي) was an Iraqi scholar, poet, and politician from Najaf who led the Iraqi Scientific Academy and served as Minister of Education.
Muhammad Rumfa
Muhammad Rumfa was king of Kano, a Hausa city-state in what is now northern Nigeria, who reigned from 1463 to 1499 and is remembered as the greatest of Kano's Hausa kings.
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (محمد سعيد الصحاف)
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (محمد سعيد الصحاف), born 1940 in Hilla, was Iraq's foreign minister during the sanctions era and information minister, nicknamed Baghdad Bob and Comical Ali, for defiantly false 2003 war briefings.
Muhammad Safdar Awan (محمد صفدر اعوان)
Muhammad Safdar Awan (محمد صفدر اعوان) is a Pakistani politician and retired army officer who served in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. He is the husband of Maryam Nawaz.
Muhammad Sahimi
Muhammad Sahimi is a chemical engineer who has taught at the University of Southern California since 1984, known for work on percolation theory and transport in porous media.
Muhammad Salah al-Din Bey
Muhammad Salah al-Din Bey (محمد صلاح الدين) was an Egyptian diplomat and politician who served as foreign minister of Egypt in 1950 and 1951 under Mustafa al-Nahhas.
Muhammad Salih Kamboh
Muhammad Salih Kamboh (محمد صالح کمبوہ), who died in 1674, was a Mughal courtier, poet, and historian, author of Amal-i Salih, the chronicle of Shah Jahan's reign.
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi (محمد سيد طنطاوي) was an Egyptian scholar who served as Grand Mufti of Egypt and then Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1996 until his death in 2010.
Muhammad Shah
Muhammad Shah (Rangila), Mughal emperor 1719–1748, born 1702; patron of painting and Khayal music whose reign saw Nader Shah's 1739 sack of Delhi and the loss of the Peacock Throne.
Muhammad Shah I
Muhammad Shah I (محمد شاہ اول) was the second sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate in the Deccan, reigning from 1358 to 1375 as son and successor of its founder.
Muhammad Shah II
Muhammad Shah II (محمد شاہ دوم) was sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate of the Deccan from 1378 to 1397, with a peaceful reign devoted to literature and building.
Muhammad Shah of Brunei
Awang Alak Betatar was the first ruler of Brunei to embrace Islam, reigning thereafter as Sultan Muhammad Shah, counted as Brunei's first sultan in the 14th century.
Muhammad Shah of Malacca
Muhammad Shah of Malacca, also known as Sri Maharaja, was the third ruler of the Malacca Sultanate, reigning from 1424 to 1444 and remembered for his conversion to Islam.
Muhammad Shahid
Muhammad Shahid, also Mohammed Shahid, Indian field hockey forward born 1960 in Varanasi; won 1980 Moscow Olympic gold, played 1984 and 1988 Olympics, Asian Games silver 1982 and bronze 1986, captained India 1985/86, died 2016.
Muhammad Shanan
Muhammad Shanan (محمد شنن) was an Egyptian Maliki scholar who served as the fifth Grand Imam of al-Azhar, born in 1656 in Beheira and dying in 1720 or 1721.
Muhammad Sharefa
Muhammad Sharefa, in the Kano Chronicle Muhammadu Sharif ɗan Daɗi, was the 37th Sarkin Kano, ruling Kano from 1703 to 1731 and remembered in the Kano Chronicle for seven fiscal measures.
Muhammad Sharif Nur al-Da'im
Muhammad Sharif Nur al-Da'im (محمد شريف نور الدائم) was a Sudanese Sufi shaykh of the Sammaniyya order, teacher of Muhammad Ahmad, the future Mahdi, who dismissed him after a quarrel.
Muhammad Shaybani (محمد شیبانی خان)
Muhammad Shaybani Khan (Šāhī Beg, pen-name Šïbāni; r. 1500-10), grandson of Abu'l-Khayr, was the Uzbek Abu'l-Khayrid ruler who conquered the Timurid lands of Transoxania and Khorasan, took Samarqand in 1501 and Herat in 1507, and was killed by Shah Esmāʿīl's Safavids at Merv in December 1510.
Muhammad Sultan Mirza
Muhammad Sultan Mirza (1375–1403) was a Timurid prince, son of Jahangir and Timur's favorite grandson, who commanded the center at Ankara and died as heir apparent in 1403.
Muhammad Syarifuddin
Muhammad Syarifuddin (born 1954) is an Indonesian jurist, 14th Chief Justice of the Indonesian Supreme Court 2020–2024, earlier Deputy Chief Justice for Judicial Affairs; succeeded by Sunarto.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (محمد طاہر القادری)
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (محمد طاہر القادری) is a Pakistani-Canadian Sufi scholar, founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran International and the Pakistan Awami Tehreek party, known for his 2010 fatwa against terrorism.
Muhammad Taqi Majlisi
Muhammad Taqi Majlisi (محمد تقي مجلسي), known as Majlisi I, was a Twelver Shi'ite jurist and Hadith scholar of the Akhbari school in Safavid Iran.
Muhammad Taymur
Muhammad Taymur (محمد تيمور, 1892–1921) was an Egyptian playwright, short-story writer, and actor, a founder of the short story and theater in Egypt who wrote in colloquial Arabic.
Muhammad Tayrab
Muhammad Tayrab, the Sultan of Darfur from 1752 to 1785, was known for leading the conquest of Kordofan and moving the seat of power east of the Marrah Mountains.
Muhammad Tito Karnavian
Muhammad Tito Karnavian is an Indonesian politician and former police general serving as Minister of Home Affairs since 2019, after previously serving as Chief of the Indonesian National Police.
Muhammad Uthman al-Mirghani
Muhammad Uthman al-Mirghani (محمد عثمان الميرغني), 1793 to 1852, was a Sufi master born in the Hijaz who founded the Khatmiyya order, one of the most important brotherhoods in the Sudan.