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Marwa power station
Marwa power station, officially renamed Atal Bihari Vajpayee Thermal Power Station in 2018, is a 1,000 MW coal-fired plant at Marwa in Janjgir-Champa district, Chhattisgarh, India.
Marwan A. Simaan
Marwan A. Simaan is an American control engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000, known for dynamic game theory, signal processing, and control of implanted heart pumps.
Marwan al-Shehhi
Marwan al-Shehhi (1978, Ras al Khaimah, UAE) was the al Qaeda Hamburg-cell hijacker pilot of United Flight 175, trained at Huffman Aviation in Florida, who crashed into the World Trade Center South Tower on 9/11.
Marwan Barghouti (مروان حسيب إبراهيم البرغوثي)
Marwan Barghouti (مروان البرغوثي), born 1959, Fatah leader and Palestinian Legislative Council member for Ramallah, imprisoned in Israel since 2002; five life sentences, most-pollled Palestinian presidential favorite, excluded from 2025 exchange.
Marwan Dua
Marwan Dua is a Romanian DJ and promoter from Cluj-Napoca known for deep house and techno sets and for organizing the DUA project, which brought acts like Tale Of Us and Boris Brejcha to Romania.
Marwan Hachem
Marwan Hachem is a Lebanese payments executive who co-founded YAP, a Dubai-based digital banking company, serving as group chief executive after 20 years in payments.
Marwan I
Marwan I (Marwan ibn al-Hakam, مروان بن الحكم, c. 623/6–685), fourth Umayyad caliph 684–685 and founder of the Marwanid line; won Marj Rahit, restored Umayyad rule, succeeded by Abd al-Malik.
Marwan ibn Abi Hafsa
Marwan ibn Abi Hafsa (مروان بن أبي حفصة) was an Arabic poet of Yamama, 723–798, who praised the Abbasid caliphs al-Mahdi, al-Hadi, and Harun al-Rashid.
Marwan ibn al-Faraj
Marwan ibn al-Faraj (مروان بن الفرج), also known as Marwan ibn Kak, was a Kurdish chieftain whose sons founded the Marwanid dynasty, which ruled Diyar Bakr from 990 to 1085.
Marwan ibn Mu'awiya al-Fazari
Marwan ibn Mu'awiya al-Fazari (مروان بن معاوية الفزاري) was a Sunni hadith narrator of Kufan origin who settled in Mecca and Damascus and died in 193 AH (808–9).
Marwan II
Marwan II (مروان بن محمد) was the last Umayyad caliph of Syria, reigning from 744 until the Abbasid victory at the Battle of the Zab in 750.
Marwan Kenawy
Marwan Kenawy is an Egyptian serial entrepreneur who co-founded Lucky, a Cairo-based consumer credit fintech, in 2019 with Ayman Essawy and Momtaz Moussa, and is chief executive of Dsquares.
Marwan Kenzari
Marwan Kenzari (مروان كنزاري), Dutch-Tunisian actor born 1983 in The Hague, Golden Calf winner for Wolf (2013), known internationally as Jafar in Aladdin, Joe in The Old Guard, and roles in Black Adam and The Angel.
Marwan M. Azar
Marwan M. Azar is an American infectious disease physician and clinical mycologist who is Medical Director, Anti-infectives, at GSK and an adjunct associate professor at Yale School of Medicine.
Marwanid dynasty
The Marwanid dynasty (آل مروان) was a Kurdish emirate that ruled Diyar Bakr in Upper Mesopotamia from 983 to 1085, with its capital at Mayyafariqin.
Marwanids of Diyar Bakr
The Marwanids of Diyar Bakr (بنو مروان) were a Kurdish dynasty that ruled Diyar Bakr in Upper Mesopotamia, with its capital at Mayyafariqin, from about 984 to 1085.
Marwar (Jodhpur) State
Marwar (Jodhpur) State, or मारवाड़ राज्य, was a Rajput kingdom in western Rajasthan ruled by the Rathor clan, with its capital at Jodhpur from 1459.
Marwar (मारवाड़)
Marwar (मारवाड़), also called Jodhpur State, is the Rathore-ruled desert region of western Rajasthan west of the Aravallis, covering Jodhpur, Barmer, and Jaisalmer districts, with capital Jodhpur and Mehrangarh fort.
Marwar court
The Marwar court (मारवाड़ दरबार) centered on the Rathor Maharaja at Jodhpur, comprising court officers, the assembled nobility, record offices, and courts of justice, later reorganized under British paramountcy.
Marwar kingdom
The Marwar kingdom (मारवाड़) was a Rajput state in western Rajasthan ruled by the Rathor clan, whose royal house descended from the Gahadvala dynasty of Kanauj.
Marwar ra Pargana ri Vigat
Marwar ra Pargana ri Vigat (मारवाड़ रा परगनां री विगत), meaning "An Account of the Districts of Marwar," is a 17th-century administrative survey of Marwar compiled by diwan Muhnot Nainsi.
Marwari people
Marwari people: merchants and migrants from Marwar (Jodhpur region), Rajasthan, tied to the Marwari language; a business diaspora spread across India from the eighteenth century, dominant in banking, jute, and post-independence industry.
Marwedel
Marwedel, near Hitzacker in Lower Saxony, is the site of two or three richly furnished 2nd-century AD Germanic princely graves (Lübsow type) and an associated over-30-hectare settlement with iron working.
Marwencol (film)
Marwencol (2010) is Jeff Malmberg's documentary debut about Mark Hogancamp, who recovered from a brutal 2000 beating by building a 1/6-scale WWII Belgian town of dolls; SXSW Grand Jury winner, later adapted as Welcome to Marwen.
Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers, American comedy team of brothers Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo Marx, rose from vaudeville singing to Broadway and thirteen films (1929-1949), including Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera.
Marx's theory of alienation
Marx's theory of alienation (Entfremdung): the 1844 Manuscripts doctrine that capitalist wage labour separates producers from product, activity, others, and species-being; later reworked via fetishism, Lukács's reification, Fromm, and Seeman's five dimensions.
Marxian class theory
Marxian class theory: Marx and Engels's framework defining classes by relations to the means of production and treating class struggle, expressed through exploitation and surplus value, as the driver of history, contrasted with Weberian market-based class analysis.
Marxian economics
Marxian economics, also known as Marxist economics, is the school of economic thought built on Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism, holding that value comes from labor time.
Marxism
Marxism, the social, economic, and political theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: historical materialism, class struggle, surplus value and exploitation, alienation, and the communist prediction. Covers the Internationals, Soviet Marxism, analytical Marxism, and social democracy.
Marxism and religion
Marxism and religion: the Marxist critique of faith, from Marx's 1843 'opium of the people' passage and Engels's anti-prohibition stance to Lenin's party tactics and Latin American liberation theology.