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Muhsin Hendricks
Muhsin Hendricks (1967–2025) was a South African imam from Cape Town, widely described as the world's first openly gay imam, who was shot dead in 2025.
Muhsin ibn Ali (محسن بن علي)
Muhsin ibn Ali (محسن بن علي) is a son of Ali and Fatima in Islamic tradition, whose fate, miscarried as a martyr or died young, is contested.
Muhsin Muhammad
Muhsin Muhammad, born Melvin Darnell Campbell Jr., is a former NFL wide receiver who played 14 seasons and retired as the Carolina Panthers' career receptions leader.
Muhsin Parari
Muhsin Parari (Malayalam: മുഹ്സിന് പെരാരി) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist in Malayalam cinema who won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Screenplay for Sudani from Nigeria.
Muhta Nainsi
Muhta Nainsi (मुंहता नैणसी), also written Muhnot Nainsi, was a 17th-century chief minister of Marwar under Maharaja Jaswant Singh and chronicler who wrote Nainsi ri Khyat and the Vigat.
Muhtar Kent
Muhtar Kent (Ahmet Muhtar Kent), Turkish-American executive born 1953 in New York; Coca-Cola CEO 2008-2017 and chairman 2009-2019, earlier led Coca-Cola Turkey, Eastern Europe, and Efes Beverage Group; not the Turkish muhtar (neighborhood headman) institution.
Muhtasham Kashani
Muhtasham Kashani (محتشم کاشانی) was a Persian Safavid poet born and died in Kashan (c. 1528 to 1588), famed for a twelve-strophe elegy on Imam Hosayn's martyrdom at Karbala.
Muhtasib
The muhtasib (محتسب) was the market inspector and censor of public morals in cities of the Islamic world, enforcing standard weights and measures, supervising prices and food quality, and prosecuting offenses in the bazaars.
Muhteşem Yüzyıl
Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Magnificent Century) is a Turkish historical drama series (2011–2014, Tims&B, 139 episodes) about Süleyman I and Hürrem Sultan; a ratings and export phenomenon (500 million viewers claimed) that drew major controversy in Turkey over its depiction of Ottoman history.
Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem
Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem (Magnificent Century: Kösem) is a Turkish historical drama, sequel to Muhteşem Yüzyıl, airing 2015–2017 in 2 seasons and 60 episodes about Kösem Sultan, Ahmed I, and Murad IV, produced by Tims Productions with Beren Saat and Nurgül Yeşilçay.
Muhuali
Muhuali (木华黎) was a Mongol general of the Jalair clan, one of Genghis Khan's four heroes, who led the conquest of North China as King of State.
Muhumuza
Muhumuza, also written Muhumusa, was a wife of Rwandan king Kigeli IV Rwabugiri who, after his death in 1895, led an anti-colonial Nyabingi movement against German and British forces.
Muhurta
Muhurta (मुहूर्त, muhūrta) is a traditional Indian unit of time equal to 48 minutes, one-thirtieth of a day and night, and, by extension, an auspicious moment for starting an action.
Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi
Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi (محيي الدين المغربي) was an astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician who made systematic planetary observations at the Maragha observatory from 1262 to 1274, dying there in 1283–1284.
Muhyiddin Yassin
Muhyiddin Yassin (born 1947, Johor), also known as Tan Sri Muhyiddin bin Haji Mohd. Yassin, is Malaysia's eighth prime minister (1 March 2020 to 16 August 2021) and Bersatu president, appointed without an election after Pakatan Harapan's collapse, later charged with corruption.
Mui Ca Mao Biosphere Reserve
Mui Ca Mao Biosphere Reserve (Khu dự trữ sinh quyển Mũi Cà Mau) is a UNESCO MAB reserve in Ca Mau Province, Vietnam, designated 2009, covering 371,506 ha with Vietnam's largest mangrove area, Ramsar site 2088, and Mui Ca Mau and U Minh Ha national parks as core zones.
Muîd Ahmed Efendi
Muîd Ahmed Efendi was an Ottoman religious scholar who served as Shaykh al-Islam under Sultan İbrahim from January 1646 until his death in office in April 1647.
Muiderkring
The Muiderkring, or Muiden circle, is the name given to the poets and scholars who visited writer P.C. Hooft at Muiderslot castle near Amsterdam in the seventeenth century.
Muin J. Khoury
Muin J. Khoury is a Lebanese-American physician and genetic epidemiologist who founded and directed the CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics from 1998 to 2024.
Muir O' Fauld
Muir O' Fauld Roman Signal Station, also called Muir o'Fauld Watchtower, is a Roman watchtower at Trinity Gask, Perthshire, part of the Gask Ridge frontier, built under Agricola (AD 79-80) and abandoned c. AD 87-88.
Muir v Glasgow Corp
Muir v Glasgow Corporation (Glasgow Corp v Muir), [1943] AC 448, a House of Lords negligence case from a 1940 tea-urn scalding in King's Park, Glasgow, established the objective reasonable-foreseeability standard of care in Scots delict and English tort.
Muir Woods National Monument
Muir Woods National Monument, Marin County, California: a 554-acre National Park Service unit protecting old-growth coast redwoods, proclaimed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 from land donated by William and Elizabeth Thacher Kent.
Muir-Byenup System
Muir-Byenup System, Ramsar site 1050 in south-west Western Australia near Manjimup: a 10,631-hectare complex of lakes and peat swamps, listed 2001, important for waterbirds, endemic fish and threatened orchids.
Muireann Bradley
Muireann Bradley, Ballybofey-born Irish fingerstyle guitarist, plays prewar Piedmont and Delta country blues learned by ear; debut album I Kept These Old Blues (Tompkins Square, 2023) and Jools Holland's Hootenanny brought her fame.
Muireann O'Connell
Muireann O'Connell is an Irish TV presenter and broadcaster from Limerick, co-host of Virgin Media One's Ireland AM with Tommy Bowe and Alan Hughes since 2021, formerly a Today FM lunchtime radio host fired in 2019, and host of several podcasts.
Muirhead Library of Philosophy
Muirhead Library of Philosophy, a British philosophy book series founded and edited by John Henry Muirhead from 1888 until 1940, published by Swan Sonnenschein then Allen & Unwin, renamed in his honor, reissued by Routledge in 95 volumes.
Muisca Confederation
The Muisca Confederation is the modern name for the network of chiefdoms on Colombia's high plateau of Cundinamarca and Boyacá, reached by Spanish conquistadors in 1537.
Muisca raft
The Muisca raft (Balsa muisca) is a cast gold votive figure of a chieftain and ten figures on a raft, found in 1969 near Pasca, Colombia.
Muja power station
Muja power station is a state-owned coal-fired power station at Collie, Western Australia, owned by Synergy Energy and built in four stages between 1965 and the mid-1980s.
Mujaddid Ahmad Ijaz
Mujaddid Ahmad Ijaz (1937–1992) was a Pakistani experimental nuclear physicist, a Virginia Tech physics professor from 1964 to 1991 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory collaborator.