All articles starting with M

Muppets Tonight

Muppets Tonight (Muppets Tonight!) was an American ABC puppet variety series, 1996–1998, set at the Muppets' TV station KMUP and hosted by Clifford instead of Kermit, executive produced by Brian Henson, later moving to Disney Channel in 1997.

Sep 23, 2026

Muqabala Law of 1871

The Muqabala Law of 1871 (قانون المقابلة) was an Egyptian land law issued under Khedive Isma'il, granting full ownership to holders who paid six years of tax in advance.

Muqaddama-e-Sher-o-Shayari

Muqaddama-e-Sher-o-Shayari (مقدمہ شعر و شاعری) is an 1893 treatise on Urdu poetry by Khwaja Altaf Hussain Hali, regarded as the founding text of modern Urdu literary criticism.

Oct 3, 2026

Muqaddar (1979) is a Hindi melodrama that takes the archetype of the angry young man and grounds his rage in a specific, tragic personal history rather than generic social grievance. It remains essential viewing for understanding how Bollywood moved from the idealism of the 1960s to the cynical, star-driven dramas of the late 1970s, largely due to Amitabh Bachchan's towering performance as a man who believes fate is a cruel joke played on the poor.

Muqaddar is a 1978 Hindi melodrama directed by Prakash Mehra, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Raakhee, Rekha, and Amjad Khan, and the biggest Hindi hit of its year.

Muqaddar Ka Sikandar

Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (मुक़द्दर का सिकन्दर) is a 1978 Prakash Mehra Hindi drama starring Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee, Rekha, Vinod Khanna, with music by Kalyanji-Anandji; it was 1978's highest-grossing Hindi film and a Devdas-inspired orphan love story.

Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (मुक़द्दर का सिकंदर)

Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (मुक़द्दर का सिकंदर) is a 1978 Hindi romantic drama directed and produced by Prakash Mehra, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Rakhee, and Rekha, with music by Kalyanji-Anandji; it was 1978's biggest Bollywood hit.

Muqaddimah

Muqaddimah (المقدمة, Prolegomena), Ibn Khaldun's 1377 introduction to Kitab al-'Ibar, founding work of 'umran (social science): asabiyya solidarity, dynasty cycles, critical historical method, translated by de Slane, Rosenthal, Cheddadi.

Muqali

Muqali (Мухулай; 木华黎, 1170–1223) was a Jalayir general of the Mongol Empire, one of Genghis Khan's Four Stalwarts, and viceroy over the war against the Jin dynasty in northern China.

Muqan Qaghan

Muqan Qaghan, also spelled Muhan or Mukan (木杆可汗), was khagan of the First Türk Khaganate from 553 to 572, when the Turks became the steppe's dominant power.

Muqanna's revolt

Muqanna's revolt was an uprising against Abbasid rule in Sogdiana led by al-Muqanna, the veiled prophet, whose white-clothed followers fought from the mid-770s until his death around 780.

Muqarnas

Muqarnas (Arabic مقرنصات, also called mocárabe) is a three-dimensional honeycomb-like ornamental vaulting in Islamic architecture, which transitions square plans to domes and appears in works such as the Alhambra.

Muqarnas ceiling of the Cappella Palatina

The muqarnas ceiling of the Cappella Palatina is a painted wooden honeycomb ceiling over the nave of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo, built under Roger II in the 1140s.

Sep 24, 2026

Muqataa

Muqataa (مقاطعة) was an Abbasid fiscal practice of farming out a district's land tax to a contractor who paid a fixed sum and kept the surplus.

Muqi

Muqi (牧谿), also Muxi or Japanese Mokkei, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk and painter, monastic name Fachang, active from the late Southern Song into the early Yuan.

Muqimi

Muqimi (Муқимий), full name Muhammad Amin-khoja Mirza-khoja o'g'li, 1850–1903, was an Uzbek poet of Kokand who led a satirical school and founded the democratic trend in Uzbek literature.

Muqrin bin Abdulaziz (مقرن بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود)

Muqrin bin Abdulaziz (مقرن بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود), Saudi prince, son of King Abdulaziz, was Crown Prince for three months in 2015, and earlier Governor of Hail and Madinah and intelligence chief.

Muqtada al-Sadr (مقتدى الصدر)

Muqtada al-Sadr (مقتدى الصدر) is an Iraqi Shia cleric and political leader who heads the Sadrist movement, led the Mahdi Army, and became kingmaker after the 2005 election.

Sep 19, 2026

muque

muque (ムク) is a Japanese three-piece rock band from Fukuoka formed in 2022, which broke through in 2025 with the ONE PIECE ending theme "The 1".

Mur

Mur (Mura), Central European river and Danube sub-tributary via the Drava; rises in Austria's Lungau at 1,898 m, flows past Graz, forms borders with Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, joins the Drava at Légrád.

Mura (film)

Mura (മുറ) is a 2024 Malayalam action crime drama directed by Muhammed Musthafa, starring Suraj Venjaramoodu and Hridhu Haroon, about four unemployed friends in Thiruvananthapuram drawn into a gang heist; released 8 November 2024.

Mura (football club)

NŠ Mura (Nogometna šola Mura), also known as NK Mura and formerly Mura 05, is a Slovenian football club from Murska Sobota, founded 1924; Slovenian champion 2020/21 and Conference League group-stage participant who beat Tottenham 2:1 in 2021.

Mura (game)

Mura is a Hungarian 32-card trick-taking game from the 1930s, a Tressette relative for four players with no trumps, where each player must win at least 3 figures or be in mura and take penalty points.

Oct 20, 2026

Mura di S. Stefano

Mura di S. Stefano (Villa romana delle Mura di Santo Stefano), a Roman villa-praetorium near Anguillara Sabazia on Lake Bracciano, Lazio; 18 m-high polychrome brick tower, Caecilii Victores owners, medieval church reuse.

Mura Drava Danube Biosphere Reserve

Mura Drava Danube Biosphere Reserve (TBR MDD), the Amazon of Europe: UNESCO's first five-country biosphere reserve, designated 15 September 2021 across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia, covering about 930,000 ha along 700 km of rivers.

Mura Masa

Mura Masa is the stage name of Alex Crossan (born 1996), a Grammy-winning electronic producer from Guernsey, UK, known for Love$ick with A$AP Rocky and albums Mura Masa, R.Y.C, demon time, and Curve 1.

Murabba

Murabba is a form of Ottoman Divan poetry built from four-line stanzas in one meter, most often used for religious and didactic themes, notably by Fuzuli and Namık Kemal.

Murad (हमीद अली मुराद) (actor)

Murad (Hamid Ali Murad, हमीद अली मुराद), 1911–1997, Indian Hindi-film character actor, debut Najma (1943); known for Mughal-E-Azam, Do Bigha Zamin, Tarzan Goes to India; father of actor Raza Murad.