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Muskingum University
Muskingum University, formerly Muskingum College, is a Presbyterian-affiliated private university in New Concord, Ohio, chartered in 1837; enrolls about 1,670 students, ranked 1st among Ohio universities for Best Value in U.S. News 2026.
Muskism (book)
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (original title Muskism. The Meaning and Making of a Technoking) is a 2026 book by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff analyzing Muskism as a Fordism-like political economy, published by Harper and Allen Lane.
Muskogee Generating Station
Muskogee Generating Station is a power plant owned by Oklahoma Gas and Electric near Muskogee, Oklahoma, in commercial operation since 1956, now running two gas units and one coal unit.
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee, Oklahoma: county seat of Muskogee County, founded January 1872 as a Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway station in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation; federal seat of Indian Territory, 2020 population 36,878.
Muskox
Muskox (Ovibos moschatus, omingmak) is a stocky Arctic bovid related to sheep and goats, about 170,000 remain in 55 populations, known for qiviut underwool, defensive circles, and Alaska's 1930 reintroduction.
Muskrat
Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), also water rat: a wetland rodent native to North America, invasive in Eurasia after 1905 fur-farm introductions; builds lodges and burrows, cycles over 6-14 years, and has declined across the US.
Muskrat Falls
Muskrat Falls is an 824-megawatt hydroelectric generating station on the lower Churchill River in Labrador, Canada, completed in 2021 as part of the Lower Churchill Project.
Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin) is a transnational Sunni Islamist movement founded by Hassan al-Banna in Egypt in 1928, organized as a hierarchical cell-based pyramid under a Supreme Guide, and now banned or designated in Egypt, Jordan, and by the United States.
Muslim Community Offices (Huihui Hala'ishi)
The Muslim Community Offices (回回哈的司) were Yuan dynasty offices staffed by Muslim qadi judges, administering religious and civil affairs among Muslims until their final abolition in 1328.
Muslim conquest of Armenia
The Muslim conquest of Armenia (فتح أرمينيا) was a series of Arab campaigns from about 640 to 659 that brought Armenia under Rashidun Caliphate rule.
Muslim conquest of Hispania
The Muslim conquest of Hispania (فتح الأندلس) was the Umayyad-led invasion of the Iberian Peninsula that began in 711, defeating King Roderic and overrunning most of the peninsula by 713.
Muslim conquest of Khurasan
The Muslim conquest of Khurasan (فتح خراسان) was the series of Arab campaigns from Iraq that brought Khurasan under Rashidun rule, ending with Yazdegerd III's murder at Marv in 652.
Muslim conquest of Khuzistan
The Muslim conquest of Khuzistan (فتح خوزستان) was the Rashidun Caliphate's capture of the Sasanian province of Khuzistan from Sasanian forces, c. 635 to 642.
Muslim conquest of Persia
The Muslim conquest of Persia, fought mainly between 633 and 651, overthrew the Sasanian Empire and brought Iraq and the Iranian plateau under Muslim rule.
Muslim conquest of Tabaristan
The Muslim conquest of Tabaristan (فتح طبرستان) was the caliphate's long campaign to subdue Tabaristan on the Caspian's southern shore, completed under the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur by 761.
Muslim conquest of the Levant (فتح الشام)
The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Futūḥ al-Shām) was the mid-seventh-century Rashidun campaign that took Byzantine Syria and Palestine, ending Byzantine rule over most of the Levant.
Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
The Muslim conquest of the Maghreb was a series of Arab military campaigns between 647 and 705 that brought Byzantine-ruled North Africa west of Egypt under Islamic authority.
Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
The Muslim conquest of Transoxiana was the century-long process, from the 650s to the mid-8th century, by which Arab caliphates ruled the lands beyond the Oxus, taking Bukhara and Samarkand.
Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent
Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent: Arab conquest of Sindh (711–712, Muhammad bin Qasim), Ghaznavid raids to Somnath (1025–26), Ghurid victory of 1192, and the Delhi Sultanate, with modern debates over motives and temple desecration.
Muslim Gurjars
Muslim Gurjars (Gujjars) are Muslim members of the Gurjar clan of northern South Asia, converted during the Muslim conquest; largest population in Jammu and Kashmir as the biggest Scheduled Tribe, now largely settled.
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (مسلم بن الحجاج)
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (مسلم بن الحجاج), known as Imam Muslim, was a Persian hadith scholar of Nishapur who compiled Sahih Muslim, one of the two canonical Sunni hadith collections.
Muslim ibn al-Walid
Muslim ibn al-Walid (مسلم بن الوليد) was an Arab poet of the early Abbasid period, credited as the first to make badīʿ, rhetorical embellishment, a deliberate poetic program.
Muslim ibn Aqil
Muslim ibn Aqil (مسلم بن عقيل) was a cousin of Husayn ibn Ali sent as his emissary to Kufa, where he was executed in 680.
Muslim ibn Quraysh
Muslim ibn Quraysh (مسلم بن قريش), honorific Sharaf al-Dawla, was the Uqaylid amir of Mosul from 1061 until 1085, capturing Aleppo and ending the Mirdasid emirate at the peak of Uqaylid power.
Muslim invasions of Ma'bar
The Muslim invasions of Ma'bar (மாபார் மீது முஸ்லிம் படையெடுப்புகள்) were Delhi's raids into the Pandya kingdom, conquering Madura in 1323 and founding the Sultanate of Ma'bar.
Muslim Magomayev (musician)
Muslim Magomayev (Müslüm Maqomayev, 1942–2008) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani operatic and estrada baritone and composer, grandson of composer Muslim Magomayev Sr.; La Scala-trained, Sopot and Cannes prize winner, People's Artist of the USSR (1973).
Muslim minority of Greece
Muslim minority of Greece: the recognized Muslim community of Western Thrace, defined by religion under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, comprising Turkish-origin people, Pomaks, and Roma, exempted from the Greek-Turkish population exchange.
Muslim population growth
Muslim population growth: worldwide increase of Muslims, 1.7 billion (2010) to 2.0 billion (2020), 21% growth, twice the rest of the world; driven by fertility of 3.1 and young age structure, per Pew projections.
Muslim Rajputs
Muslim Rajputs are South Asian Muslim communities claiming Rajput descent, such as the Kyamkhanis of Rajasthan and the Rangars of Haryana and Punjab, who retained clan names, genealogies, and warrior identity after conversion to Islam.
Muslim Sahitya Samaj
Muslim Sahitya Samaj (মুসলিম সাহিত্য সমাজ), a Bengali Muslim literary society, was founded in Dhaka in 1926 and led the buddhir mukti rationalist movement through its journal Shikha.