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Musa balbisiana

Musa balbisiana (Balbis banana, starchy banana) is a wild seeded diploid banana (BB genome, 2n=22) native to tropical and subtropical Asia, one of two progenitors of cultivated bananas, donor of the B genome to plantain and cooking cultivars, and a source of drought and disease resistance.

Musa Bauska

Musa Bauska, or Mūsa Raceland, is a Grade 6A FIA autocross and rallycross circuit near Bauska, Latvia. Opened 1978, 940 m autocross and 1,080 m rallycross layouts, European Championship venue since 1990.

Musa Çelebi

Musa Çelebi (موسی چلبی) was an Ottoman prince, a son of Sultan Bayezid I, who ruled the Balkan province of Rumelia from 1411 until his death in 1413.

Musa Hitam

Musa Hitam, Malaysian politician, deputy prime minister and home affairs minister 1981-1986 under Mahathir Mohamad; UMNO deputy president who defeated Tengku Razaleigh in 1981 and resigned in 1986, sparking the 1987 UMNO split.

Musa ibn 'Uqba

Musa ibn 'Uqba (موسى بن عقبة) was a Medinan hadith scholar who died in 758 CE and wrote one of the earliest books on the campaigns of Muhammad.

Musa ibn Bugha

Musa ibn Bugha (موسى بن بغا) was an Abbasid military commander and son of the Turkish general Bugha al-Kabir, who served six caliphs and shaped their succession and removal.

Musa ibn Muhammad al-Yunini

Musa ibn Muhammad al-Yunini (موسى بن محمد اليونيني) was a Hanbali historian and hadith scholar of the Mamluk sultanate, known for the chronicle Dhayl Mir'at al-zaman.

Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi

Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi (موسى بن موسى القسوي) was head of the Banu Qasi dynasty and governor of the Upper March of al-Andalus, dying at Tudela in 862.

Musa ibn Nusayr

Musa ibn Nusayr (موسى بن نصير) was an Umayyad commander and governor who completed the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb and directed the conquest of al-Andalus, 711 to 714.

Musa ibn Talha

Musa ibn Talha was a second-generation hadith narrator from Quraysh, son of the Companion Talha ibn Ubaydallah, who settled in Kufa and died there in 103 AH (721 CE).

Musa Kazim al-Husayni

Musa Kazim al-Husayni (موسى كاظم الحسيني), born in Jerusalem in 1853, was a Palestinian notable who served the Ottoman Empire and was mayor of Jerusalem from 1918 to 1920.

Mûsâ Kâzim Efendi

Mûsâ Kâzim Efendi was an Ottoman religious scholar who served four terms as Shaykh al-Islam between 1910 and 1918, and died in exile in Edirne in 1920.

Musa Khan

Musa Khan (موسی خان), titled Masnad-i-Ala, succeeded his father Isa Khan in 1599 as ruler of Bhati in Bengal, leading the Bara-Bhuiyan resistance until submitting to the Mughals in 1611.

MUSA study

MUSA (NCT05075642) is an Italian multicenter observational study of initial management of urinary disorders in multiple sclerosis, using UBQ-MS, ABSST, and PVR screening; distinct from a same-named incontinence surgery study.

Musa Yevloyev

Musa Yevloyev (Муса Гиланиевич Евлоев), Russian Greco-Roman wrestler, 97 kg; Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, two-time world champion (2018, 2019), nicknamed the Russian Rocket; returned at Budapest 2026.

MUSA-BEA study

MUSA-BEA (Bicocca Epidemiological Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk Factors, NCT07207603) is an observational pilot cohort study screening Bicocca district residents in Milan for cardiovascular risk, exposome, and environmental factors within the PNRR-funded MUSA ecosystem.

Musabaqah Tilawatil Quran

Musabaqah Tilawatil Quran (MTQ) is Indonesia's Quran recitation competition, covering recitation, memorization, tafsir, calligraphy, and hadith memorization at five levels from village to national; the first national MTQ was held in 1968 in Makassar.

Musaceae

Musaceae, the banana family (Zingiberales), comprises the genera Musa, Ensete, and Musella: giant herbs with pseudostems, unisexual flowers, and banana fruits; monophyletic, with Musa and Ensete-Musella clades and Palaeocene origin.

Musaddas

Musaddas is a stanzaic form of Urdu and Persian poetry in which each stanza has six lines, rhymed AAAABB, used for long narrative and elegiac poems.

Musaddas-e-Hali

Musaddas-e-Hali (مسدسِ حالی), fully Musaddas-e Madd-o Jazr-e Islām, is an Urdu poem by Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali, published in 1879, that recalls Islam's glorious past and mourns its decline in India.

Musadik Masood Malik

Musadik Masood Malik, also known as Dr Musadik Malik, is a Pakistani politician who serves as Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination and sits in the Senate.

Musaemura Zimunya

Musaemura Bonas Zimunya, born 1949 in Mutare, is a Zimbabwean poet and literary scholar writing in English and Shona whose work contrasts the rural Eastern Highlands with the city.

Musaffah

Musaffah (مصفح), also spelled Mussafah, is an industrial and commercial district on the mainland of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and its most populated district in 2024.

Musafir (मुसाफ़िर) (2004 film)

Musafir (मुसाफ़िर) is a 2004 Hindi neo-noir action thriller written, directed and produced by Sanjay Gupta, remaking Oliver Stone's U Turn; starring Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt and Sameera Reddy, released 10 December 2004, a commercial failure despite some positive reviews.

Musafir Cafe

Musafir Cafe is a 2026 Hindi Netflix romantic drama series, 8 episodes, adapted from Divya Prakash Dubey's novel, created by Sharanya Rajgopal, directed by Ruchir Arun, starring Vikrant Massey, Vedika Pinto, and Mahima Makwana; Season 2 announced August 2026.

Musaget

Musaget (Мусагет) was a Moscow publishing house of the Russian Symbolists, founded in 1909 by Emil Medtner, Andrei Bely, and Ellis and active until 1917, issuing 44 books of Symbolist poetry and criticism.

Musala

Musala (Мусала), 2,925.4 m in Bulgaria's Rila Mountains, is the highest peak of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula, seventh in Europe, with 2,473 m prominence, a weather station since 1932, and the BEO Moussala research observatory.

Musalia Mudavadi

Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi, known as Musalia Mudavadi, is a Kenyan politician who serves as Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs.

Musammat

Musammat (مسمّط), meaning "string of pearls," is a collective name in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish poetry for stanzaic forms whose stanzas hold three to ten lines in one meter.

Musang King

Musang King, also Mao Shan Wang (猫山王), is Malaysia's premium durian cultivar, clone D197 (Raja Kunyit), registered 9 December 1993 from Kelantan; known for creamy bittersweet yellow flesh, a 2017 draft genome, MyIPO brand protection until 2034, and major Chinese export demand.