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Muhammad Uthman Jalal
Muhammad Uthman Jalal (محمد عثمان جلال) was an Egyptian translator and zajal poet who adapted French literature into Arabic, best known for al-Shaykh Matluf, his Egyptianized Tartuffe of 1873.
Muhammad V of Kelantan
Muhammad V (Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, born 1969), Sultan of Kelantan since 2010 and 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia 2016–2019, the first Agong to abdicate, resigning 6 January 2019 after about 755 days.
Muhammad wad Dayf Allah
Muhammad wad Dayf Allah (محمد ود ضيف الله) was a Funj-era Sudanese judge and Sufi, author of the Kitab al-Tabaqat biographical dictionary, who died in 1810.
Muhammad Walji
Muhammad F. Walji is a dental and biomedical informatics scientist at UTHealth Houston, a Presidential Early Career Award recipient who leads the BigMouth dental data repository.
Muhammad XII of Granada
Muhammad XII of Granada, called Boabdil, was the last Muslim ruler of the Emirate of Granada, which he surrendered to Ferdinand and Isabella in January 1492.
Muhammad Yunus (মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস)
Muhammad Yunus (মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস), born 1940 in Chittagong, is a Bangladeshi economist who founded Grameen Bank, pioneered microcredit, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, and led Bangladesh's interim government from 2024 to 2026.
Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari
Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari (محمد زاهد الكوثري), 1879 to 1952, was a Hanafi jurist and hadith scholar who served as deputy for education to the last Ottoman Shaykh al-Islam.
Muhammad Zaman
Muhammad Zaman (محمد زمان) was a Persian painter of Safavid Iran who flourished from 1649 to 1704, serving Shah Abbas II and Shah Sulayman as the foremost practitioner of farangi-sazi.
Muhammad: The Messenger of God (محمد رسولالله) (film)
Muhammad: The Messenger of God (محمد رسولالله) is Majid Majidi's 2015 Iranian epic, the first of a planned trilogy, about the Prophet Muhammad's childhood; made for about $40 million, it never shows the prophet's face and drew fatwas, al-Azhar objections, and mixed reviews.
Muhammad's first revelation
Muhammad's first revelation is the Islamic tradition in which the angel Gabriel commanded Muhammad, aged about forty, to read in the cave of Hira in 610 CE.
Muhammadiyah
Muhammadiyah is a modernist Islamic socio-religious movement in Indonesia, founded by Ahmad Dahlan in Yogyakarta in 1912, with an estimated 30 to 40 million members and one of the country's two largest Islamic organizations.
Muhammadu Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari (1942–2025) led Nigeria twice: as military head of state from December 1983 to August 1985 after a coup, and as elected president 2015–2023, the first opposition candidate to defeat an incumbent; his legacy spans infrastructure gains, debt growth, and persistent insecurity.
Muhammadu Korau
Muhammadu Korau was a Hausa ruler of Katsina, in what is now northern Nigeria, remembered as the first Muslim Sarkin Katsina and the founder of the Korau dynasty.
Muhammadu Tukur
Muhammadu Tukur was emir of Kano from December 1893 until 1894, appointed by the Sokoto Caliphate and deposed in the Kano civil war by Aliyu Babba.
Muhammed Hamdulla Sayeed
Muhammed Hamdulla Sayeed, born in 1982, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Lakshadweep in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after first serving from 2009 to 2014 as the house's youngest member.
Muhammed Lawal
Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal (Adekunle Muhammed Lawal), American MMA fighter born 1981, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion, 2015 RIZIN grand prix winner, 21-10 record, retired 2019.
Muhanna ibn Isa
Muhanna ibn Isa (مهنا بن عيسى) was the amir al-arab, commander of the Bedouin, under the Mamluk sultanate, succeeding his father Isa ibn Muhanna in 1284.
Muhaqqiq Ardabili
Muhaqqiq Ardabili, more fully Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ardabili, was a sixteenth-century Twelver Shia jurist who led the Najaf seminary; his Majma' al-Fa'ida wa l-Burhan remains a standard reference of Ja'fari fiqh.
Muharib ibn Dithar
Muharib ibn Dithar (محارب بن دثار) was a Kufan Successor, jurist, and judge of Kufa who died in 116 AH (733 CE), graded among the most reliable hadith transmitters.
Muharram (محرم)
Muharram (محرم) is the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar and one of its four sacred months, whose tenth day, Ashura, is observed as a fast by Sunnis and mourning by Shia Muslims.
Muhassil tax system of Mount Lebanon
The Muhassil tax system of Mount Lebanon (نظام المحصل) was an Ottoman tax-farming order run by Shihabi emirs, briefly directly collected 1840–1842 and abolished by 1861.
Muhdathun
Muhdathun (المحدثون, "the modernists") were the Abbasid-era Arab poets, including Abu Nuwas and Abu Tammam, whom classical critics contrasted with the qudama, the ancient poets.
Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari
Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari (محب الدين الطبري) was a Shafi'i hadith scholar and jurist born in Mecca in 1218 who served as qadi of Mecca and died there in 1295.
Muhimbili National Hospital
Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), Dar es Salaam, is Tanzania's national tertiary referral and teaching hospital under the Ministry of Health, with Upanga and Mloganzila campuses, about 2,000 beds, and a planned USD 468 million rebuild.
Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant
The Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Kernkraftwerk Mühleberg or KKM, was a Swiss boiling water reactor near Bern, shut down in December 2019.
Muhlenbach
Muhlenbach (Millebech) is a Luxembourg City quarter, home of FC Blue Boys Muhlenbach, founded 1932, renamed several times, in the National Division 2019/20, merged into RM Hamm Benfica in 2020.
Muhlenbergia
Muhlenbergia (muhly grasses), sole genus of subtribe Muhlenbergiinae in Poaceae; about 174–183 species, C4 grasses centered in Mexico, originating 9.3 mya in the Sierra Madre, including ornamental pink muhly M. capillaris.
Muhlis Akarsu
Muhlis Akarsu (1948–1993) was a Turkish Alevi folk singer and bağlama player known for the Muhabbet series with Musa Eroğlu and Arif Sağ, who died in the 1993 Sivas Madımak Hotel fire.
Muhongo Mons
Muhongo Mons: former IAU-approved name (2003) of a 175 km feature classed as a mons on Venus at 10.6N, 174.5E, named for a Mbundu (Angola) ancestor deity; name dropped December 17, 2025 when topography showed no mons there.
Muhoozi Kainerugaba
Muhoozi Kainerugaba (General MK) is Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, son of President Yoweri Museveni, founder of the Patriotic League of Uganda, and the widely presumed heir whose declared 2031 presidential bid and 2026 actions dominate succession politics.