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Mustafa al-Arusi
Mustafa al-Arusi (مصطفى العروسي) was an Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and Sufi author who served as Grand Imam of al-Azhar in Cairo from 1864 until his dismissal in 1870.
Mustafa al-Nahhas
Mustafa al-Nahhas (مصطفى النحاس) was an Egyptian lawyer and statesman who led the Wafd party from 1927 and served several terms as prime minister, abrogating the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in 1951.
Mustafa Ali
Mustafa Ali is the ring name of Adeel Alam, an American wrestler, former Homewood, Illinois police officer, WWE's first wrestler of Pakistani descent, and TNA International and X Division champion known for the 450 splash.
Mustafa Barzani
Mustafa Barzani, also known as Mulla Mustafa, was an Iraqi Kurdish leader who founded the KDP in 1946 and led armed struggle for Kurdish self-rule for over 30 years.
Mustafa Behçet Efendi
Mustafa Behçet Efendi (بهجت افندى, 1774–1834) was an Ottoman physician who served three times as chief physician to the sultans Selim III and Mahmud II.
Mustafa ben Ismail
Mustafa ben Ismail (Mustapha ben Ismaël), c. 1769 to 1843, was an Arab chieftain of the Douairs tribe who became a French general during the conquest of Algeria.
Mustafa Ceceli
Mustafa Ceceli is a Turkish pop singer, arranger, and producer born in Ankara in 1980 who rose from arranging for stars to a solo career with his 2009 debut album.
Mustafa Çelebi
Mustafa Çelebi (مصطفى چلبی) was an Ottoman prince, presented as a son of Bayezid I, who proclaimed his rule in Edirne and rebelled against Murad II in 1421–1422.
Mustafa Dagıstanlı
Mustafa Dağıstanlı was a Turkish freestyle wrestler who won consecutive Olympic gold medals at Melbourne 1956 and Rome 1960, plus world titles in 1954, 1957, and 1959.
Mustafa Hayri Efendi
Mustafa Hayri Efendi (1867–1921) was an Ottoman religious scholar who served as Shaykh al-Islam from 1914 to 1916, issuing the jihad fatwas of World War I.
Mustafa I (مصطفى الأول)
Mustafa I (مصطفى الأول, c. 1591–1639), fifteenth Ottoman sultan and brother of Ahmed I, reigned twice (1617–18, 1622–23), was deposed both times for mental instability, first sultan deposed, buried in Hagia Sophia.
Mustafa II (مصطفى ثانى)
Mustafa II (مصطفى ثانى), Ottoman sultan 1695–1703, son of Mehmed IV; personally led three Austrian campaigns, suffered Zenta (1697), signed Karlowitz (1699), and was deposed in the 1703 Edirne incident.
Mustafa III
Mustafa III (مصطفى, 1717–1774), 26th Ottoman sultan, reigning 1757–1774; Thrift-minded reformer who declared war on Russia in October 1768 and died amid the defeat later settled at Küçük Kaynarca; father of Selim III.
Mustafa IV
Mustafa IV (IV. Mustafa, مصطفى), Ottoman sultan 1807–1808, enthroned by the Kabakçı Mustafa Janissary rebellion that deposed Selim III; ordered Selim's killing in 1808, was deposed for Mahmud II, and strangled on Mahmud's order in November 1808.
Mustafa Kamil
Mustafa Kamil (مصطفى كامل), also styled Mustafa Kamil Pasha, was an Egyptian nationalist leader and journalist who founded the newspaper al-Liwa' and led resistance to British occupation.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938), Ottoman-Turkish general and statesman, founder and first President of Turkey (1923), victor of Gallipoli and the Sakarya battle, granted the surname Atatürk in 1934, architect of Turkey's secular reforms.
Mustafa Khammash
Mustafa Khammash is a Jordanian-born control engineer and synthetic biologist who is Professor of Control Theory and Systems Biology at ETH Zurich in Basel, pioneering cybergenetics.
Mustafa Khan of Shirvan
Mustafa Khan of Shirvan (Mostafa Khan, مصطفی خان) was the last khan of the Shirvan Khanate, centered on Shamakhi, ruling from 1791 until its annexation by Russia in 1820.
Mustafa Khaznadar
Mustafa Khaznadar (مصطفى خزندار, 1817–1878) was a Greek-born Tunisian statesman who served as grand vizier of Tunis for some 35 years, presiding over the foreign borrowing and debt crisis that ended in Tunisia's bankruptcy.
Mustafa Kutlu
Mustafa Kutlu (born 1947) is a Turkish storyteller, essayist, and columnist, a prominent figure of the Turkish short story whose work draws on Sufi themes.
Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti
Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti (مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي; 1876–1924) was an Egyptian essayist, poet, and short-story writer, a pioneer of modern Arabic prose famous for his al-Nazarat essays.
Mustafa Merlika-Kruja
Mustafa Merlika-Kruja was an Albanian politician and scholar who signed the 1912 Declaration of Independence and served as Prime Minister under the Italian occupation, 1941 to 1943.
Mustafa Mustafa (film)
Mustafa Mustafa (முஸ்தப்ஹா முஸ்தப்ஹா), 2026 Tamil buddy comedy, debut of director Praveen Saravanan; remake of Meeku Maathrame Cheptha; stars Sathish and Suresh Ravi; released 6 March 2026, flopped.
Mustafa Naima
Mustafa Naima (مصطفى ناعما) was an Ottoman historian and financial official, born in Aleppo around 1655 and remembered as the first official historiographer; his chronicle Tarih-i Naima covers 1591 to 1659.
Mustafa Neemuchwala
Mustafa Neemuchwala is a Partner at the venture firm New Enterprise Associates in New York, investing from seed to late stage in AI, cybersecurity, and defense.
Mustafa Pasha Bushati
Mustafa Pasha Bushati (Buşatlı Mustafa Paşa, 1797–1860) was an Ottoman statesman of Albanian origin and the last hereditary governor of the Pashalik of Scutari, suppressed in 1831.
Mustafa Râkım
Mustafa Râkım Efendi, born in Ünye in 1758 and died in 1826, was an Ottoman calligrapher who established the modern jali thuluth school and reformed the imperial tughra.
Mustafa Reşid Pasha
Mustafa Reşid Pasha (مصطفى رشيد پاشا), born 1800, was an Ottoman statesman and diplomat who served six times as grand vizier and secured the Tanzimat reform decree of 1839.
Mustafa Sabri Efendi
Mustafa Sabri Efendi (1869–1954) was an Ottoman scholar and statesman who served as Shaykh al-Islam in 1919 and 1920, then spent three decades in exile in Egypt.
Mustafa Sahin
Mustafa Sahin is a Turkish-American clinical neurologist and neuroscientist who chairs Neurology at Boston Children's Hospital and studies the neurobiology of autism and tuberous sclerosis.