All articles starting with M

Mahmud Taymur

Mahmud Taymur (محمود تيمور, 1894–1973) was an Egyptian writer from a leading literary family who wrote more than fifty books and helped establish the modern Arabic short story.

Mahmud Yalavach

Mahmud Yalavach (Mahmud Yalavoch; died 1254, Peking) was a Khwarazmian Muslim merchant and administrator who served the Mongol Empire, governing Central Asia and briefly Peking.

Sep 24, 2026

Mahmud's conquest of Multan and the Isma'ili suppression

Mahmud of Ghazna's conquest of Multan was a campaign against the Isma'ili ruler Abu'l-Futuh Da'ud b. Nasr, ending with Multan's annexation to the Ghaznavid state in 1010.

Sep 23, 2026

Mahmud's raid on Somnath

Mahmud's raid on Somnath (حمله محمود به سومنات) was Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni's 1026 attack on the Shiva temple of Somanatha in Gujarat, whose linga he broke and treasure he carried off.

The Mahmudiyah rape and killings, also called the al-Janabi family massacre, were March 12, 2006 war crimes in which five U.S. Army soldiers raped and murdered 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and killed her family near Mahmoudiyah, Iraq; four were court-martialed and Steven Green was convicted federally under MEJA.

Mahmudullah

Mahmudullah Riyad (মাহমুদউল্লাহ রিয়াদ), born 1986, Mymensingh, Bangladeshi batting all-rounder; first Bangladeshi World Cup centurion (2015); retired from all international cricket 12 March 2025 after 239 ODIs, 5,689 runs, 82 wickets.

Mahmut Atalay

Mahmut Atalay (1934–2004), Turkish freestyle wrestler; 1968 Mexico City Olympic gold at welterweight 78 kg, fourth at Tokyo 1964, 1966 world champion, named FILA's most technical wrestler in 1968.

Mahmut Demir

Mahmut Demir (born 1970, Suluova, Turkey), nicknamed the "Turkish Tank", is a Turkish freestyle wrestler, 1996 Atlanta Olympic super-heavyweight (130 kg) champion, 1994 World and three-time European champion; not the footballers or referees of the same name.

Mahmut Makal

Mahmut Makal (1930–2018) was a Turkish writer and village teacher whose book Bizim Köy (Our Village, 1950) founded Turkish village literature with its realist accounts of rural poverty.

Sep 19, 2026

Mahmut Orhan

Mahmut Orhan is a Turkish DJ and producer of deep house and melodic house, known for the 2016 hit "Feel" and the 2024 debut album Pangea.

Mahnoor Baloch

Mahnoor Baloch (ماہ نور بلوچ), Pakistani actress, director and model born 1970 in the USA, debuted in PTV's Marvi (1993), won a Lux Style Award for Talafi, and appeared in Torn (2013).

Maho Beach

Maho Beach is a beach on the Dutch side of Sint Maarten at the end of Princess Juliana International Airport's runway, famous for planes passing low overhead.

Mahogany

Mahogany: aromatic reddish hardwood of Swietenia (3 tropical American Meliaceae species) and African Khaya; prized for furniture since 1680, CITES-listed after depletion of S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla.

Sep 19, 2026

Mahomedali Habib

Mahomedali Habib, also spelled Muhammad Ali Habib, was a Bombay-born banker (1904–1959) who co-founded Habib Bank Limited with his brother Dawood in 1941, later moving it to Karachi at Jinnah's request.

Mahon Tribunal

Mahon Tribunal, formally the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments, also the Planning or Flood Tribunal, was an Irish public inquiry into planning corruption, established in 1997 and known for its 2012 final report finding 14 politicians corrupt.

Mahonia

Mahonia (Oregon grape) is a genus of about 100 evergreen Berberidaceae shrubs with spiny compound leaves, yellow flowers, and blue-black berries, native to East Asia and western North America; long debated against Berberis, resolved into four genera by Yu and Chung in 2017.

Mahonian statistic

A Mahonian statistic is a statistic on permutations whose distribution equals that of the inversion number; the major index is the other prototype, both named for Percy MacMahon.

Mahoning County

Mahoning County, Ohio: county seat Youngstown, created February 16, 1846 from Trumbull and Columbiana Counties as the last county formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve; 2020 population 228,614; named for the Mahoning River ('salt licks').

Sep 19, 2026

Mahony

Mahony, real name Maracine Razvan, is a Romanian house and tech house DJ and producer from Bucharest, known for the Kristal Club residency and his label Take Notes.

Mahony complementary filter

The Mahony complementary filter is a nonlinear attitude estimation algorithm that fuses gyroscope with accelerometer readings to estimate orientation, introduced by Robert Mahony and colleagues in 2008.

Mahoromatic (まほろまてぃっく)

Mahoromatic (まほろまてぃっく) is a Japanese manga by Bunjūrō Nakayama and Bow Ditama, serialized in Comic Gum 1998–2004 in 8 volumes, about android Mahoro serving as maid to Suguru; adapted by Gainax and Shaft into two anime series (2001, 2002) and a 2009 special.

Mahou-San Miguel

Mahou-San Miguel is a Spanish family-owned brewing and beverages company headquartered in Madrid, formed in 2000 when Mahou acquired San Miguel. It leads the Spanish beer sector and sells in more than 70 countries.

Mahpari Khatun

Mahpari Khatun, wife of Seljuk sultan 'Ala' al-Din Kayqubad I, was a powerful female patron in Anatolia. She commissioned the Huand Hatun complex in Kayseri and several caravanserais.

Mahr (مهر)

Mahr (مهر), also called sadaq, is the dower a Muslim husband must settle on his wife as part of the marriage contract, becoming her exclusive property.

Mahr enforcement in secular courts

Mahr enforcement in secular courts is the treatment of the Islamic dower, a payment promised to a Muslim wife, as a civil contract that courts can order paid.

Mahra bint Mohammed Al Maktoum

Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, also called Mahra M1, is a Dubai royal, daughter of ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Zoe Grigorakos, founder of the Mahra M1 fragrance brand, formerly married to Sheikh Mana, and engaged to rapper French Montana.

Mahru

Mahru (마루) is a series of network-based humanoid robots developed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, introduced in 2005 and ended in 2010.

Mahsa Amini protests

Mahsa Amini protests (Woman, Life, Freedom movement): nationwide Iranian demonstrations beginning 16 September 2022 after the death in morality-police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini, arrested for improper hijab. Spread to all 31 provinces, over 160 cities, 143 universities; 551 verified deaths.

Mahsati (Mercurian crater)

Mahsati is a 79-km impact crater on Mercury at 39.57°N, 250.29°W, quadrangle H-04, named for the medieval Persian poet Mahsati Ganjavi (c. 1089–1159); IAU approved the name on 7 February 2025.