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Mulla Shah Badakhshi

Mulla Shah Badakhshi (ملا شاہ بادخشی), also known as Shah Mohammad, was a Qadiri Sufi master of Lahore and Kashmir and the spiritual guide of Dara Shikoh and Jahanara Begum.

Mulla Shukrullah Shirazi

Mulla Shukrullah Shirazi (ملا شکر اللہ شیرازی), titled Afzal Khan, was a Persian-born administrator who rose to become wazir, or chief minister, of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, serving until his death in 1639.

Mulla Wajhi

Mulla Wajhi (ملا وجہی) was a Dakhni poet and prose writer at the Qutb Shahi court of Golconda, serving four sultans from Ibrahim to Abdullah Qutb Shah.

Mulla Zuhuri

Mulla Zuhuri (ملا ظہوری), born in Khorasan around 1537, was a Persian poet and poet laureate who served the Ahmadnagar and Bijapur courts and died in 1616.

Mulla-bashi

The Mulla-bashi (ملا باشی) was the head of the religious institution in late Safavid Iran, created under Shah Sultan Husayn around 1715 and serving as the shah's religious adviser.

Mullaghmore, County Sligo

Mullaghmore, County Sligo: small seaside village on a Donegal Bay peninsula, home to Classiebawn Castle, a Palmerston-era stone harbour, and the expert-only big-wave reef at Mullaghmore Head.

Mullah

Mullah is an honorific title for a Muslim religious leader, derived from the Arabic mawlā meaning "master," with no formal requirements or ordination, used across Iran, Afghanistan, and South Asia.

Mullah Omar (ملا عمر)

Mullah Omar (ملا عمر), Mullah Mohammad Omar, founded the Taliban in Kandahar in 1994, ruled the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 1996-2001 as amir al-mu'minin, refused to surrender bin Laden, and died in April 2013, confirmed July 2015.

Mullaippattu

Mullaippattu (முல்லைப்பாட்டு) is a classical Tamil Sangam poem, the fifth of the Ten Idylls, composed by Nappūthanār on a wife's patience during her husband's war.

Mullaperiyar Dam (മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാർ അണക്കെട്ട്)

Mullaperiyar Dam (മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാർ അണക്കെട്ട്) is a masonry gravity dam on the Periyar river in Kerala, built 1887 to 1895 and operated by Tamil Nadu under a 999-year lease.

Mulle

Mulle is a Swedish two-deck (104-card) fishing card game, a variant of Casino, where capturing a card with its exact twin scores a bonus called a mulle; documented variants differ in deal and mulle scoring.

Mulled wine

Mulled wine, also called spiced wine or Glühwein, is red wine gently heated with sugar, citrus, and spices such as cinnamon and cloves, served warm as a European winter and Christmas market drink since Roman times.

Mullen Scales of Early Learning

The Mullen Scales of Early Learning is a norm-referenced test of cognitive, motor, and language development in children from birth to 68 months, used to identify delays.

Müller (dairy company)

Müller is a family-owned dairy company founded in 1896 as a village dairy in Aretsried, Bavaria, now producing dairy products in 13 countries with 35,000 employees and €10.3 billion turnover.

Muller & sohn

Müller & Sohn (Miller & Son) is a 1985/1986 Reinhold Wittig board game for 4-6 players about millers' sons buying mills; it won the 1986 Spiel des Jahres special award Schönes Spiel.

Müller Ice Cap

Müller Ice Cap is an ice cap on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada, named for glaciologist Fritz Müller, who led its first intensive study in 1959–1962.

Müllerian agenesis

Müllerian agenesis, or Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, is a congenital absence of the uterus, cervix, and upper vagina in 46,XX women with normal ovaries, causing primary amenorrhea and absolute uterine factor infertility; treated by vaginal dilation, surrogacy, or uterus transplantation.

Müllerian aplasia and hyperandrogenism

Müllerian aplasia and hyperandrogenism, also called WNT4 deficiency or Biason-Lauber syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant WNT4-gene disorder in 46,XX females causing absent or underdeveloped uterus, primary amenorrhea, infertility, and hyperandrogenism with acne and facial hirsutism, distinct from classic MRKH syndrome.

Müllerian derivatives-lymphangiectasia-polydactyly syndrome

Müllerian derivatives-lymphangiectasia-polydactyly syndrome, or Urioste syndrome (ORPHA:1655, OMIM 235255), is an extremely rare genetic disorder of male newborns with persistent Müllerian duct derivatives, lymphangiectasia, protein-losing enteropathy, polydactyly, and renal anomalies, fatal in infancy.

Mullerthal Region

Mullerthal Region (Mëllerdall), Luxembourg's Little Switzerland: tourism region in eastern Luxembourg with sandstone rock formations, the 112 km Mullerthal Trail, a UNESCO Global Geopark since 2022, and the Echternach Hopping Procession.

Mullet (fish)

Mullet (fish): the grey mullets, family Mugilidae, coastal fishes of all tropical to temperate seas; detritus-feeding food fish including Mugil cephalus, with molecular phylogeny showing seven lineages and cryptic species.

Mullet (haircut)

Mullet haircut: short hair on top and sides with long hair at the back, "business in the front, party in the back." Named by the Beastie Boys in 1994; peaked in the 1980s, revived since 2020.

Mullidae

Mullidae, goatfishes (rougets, surmullets), a family of marine perciform fish with two chemosensory chin barbels, two separated dorsal fins, 24 vertebrae; 101 species in 6 genera, tropical to temperate seas, valued food fish.

Mulligan (games)

Mulligan (games): an informal, unpenalized replay of a bad shot, chiefly in golf; not in the Rules of Golf. Named for golfer David B. Mulligan (1920s Montreal) or Buddy Mulligan (1930s New Jersey), possibly via baseball's Swat Mulligan.

Mulligatawny

Mulligatawny (milagu tannir, "pepper water") is an Anglo-Indian curry soup adapted by British cooks in colonial India from the thin South Indian Tamil broth rasam, later a staple of British cookbooks and Indian restaurants.

Mulliken population analysis

Mulliken population analysis is a quantum chemistry method that partitions a molecule's electrons among its atoms, bonds, and orbitals, introduced by Robert S. Mulliken in 1955.

Mullingar

Mullingar (An Muileann gCearr), county town of Westmeath, Ireland, on the River Brosna and Royal Canal. Norman-founded, shire town since 1542, canal 1806, railway 1848, population 22,667 in 2022.

Mullissu-mukannishat-Ninua

Mullissu-mukannishat-Ninua was a queen of Assyria in the ninth century BC, wife of King Ashurnasirpal II and the first queen attested in the Neo-Assyrian Period.

Mullite

Mullite is a rare aluminosilicate mineral and ceramic phase named after Scotland's Isle of Mull, identified in 1924 and valued for high-temperature refractories in the metallurgy, glass, and ceramics industries.

Mullum Malarum (முள்ளும் மலரும்)

Mullum Malarum (முள்ளும் மலரும்) is a 1978 Tamil drama, J. Mahendran's directorial debut, starring Rajinikanth as winch operator Kali, based on Uma Chandran's Kalki novel, with music by Ilaiyaraaja and cinematography by Balu Mahendra.