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Al-Maturidi
Al-Maturidi (الماتريدي) was a Muslim theologian and jurist of Samarkand who died in 944–945 and gave his name to the Maturidi school of Sunni theology.
Al-Mawardi
Al-Mawardi (الماوردي) was a Shafi'i jurist, judge, and political theorist of the Abbasid caliphate, born in Basra around 974 and died in Baghdad in 1058, known for the Ordinances of Government.
Al-Maysaji
Al-Maysaji (المصيصي) was a Shafi'i jurist and Ash'ari theologian of Damascus, born in Latakia in 448 AH and died in 542 AH, who taught at the Umayyad Mosque.
al-Maziri
al-Maziri (المازري) was a Maliki jurist and hadith scholar of Ifriqiya under the Zirid dynasty, born around 1061, who wrote the first known commentary on Sahih Muslim.
Al-Medinah Sulci
Al-Medinah Sulci, an IAU-approved sulcus (furrow system) on Saturn's moon Enceladus, 117.50 km wide near 50°S, named after a place in Burton's Arabian Nights tale "The Lovers of Al-Medinah."
Al-Mirbad Poetry Festival
The Al-Mirbad Poetry Festival (مهرجان المربد الشعري) is an annual Arabic poetry festival held in Basra, Iraq, first held in 1971 and named after the city's historic literary market.
Al-Miswar ibn Makhrama
Al-Miswar ibn Makhrama (المِسْوَر بن مَخْرَمَة) was a companion of Muhammad and a hadith transmitter and mufti of Medina, killed during the siege of Mecca in 683.
Al-Moyassar
Al-Moyassar, formerly printed al-Maysar, is a group of archaeological sites in the Wadi Samad, about 100 km south of Muscat, Oman, occupied from the 3rd millennium BCE to the Islamic period.
Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad
Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad (المؤيد أحمد) was a Circassian Mamluk sultan of Egypt, son of Sultan Inal, who reigned from February to June 1461 before the amirs deposed him for Khushqadam.
al-Mu'ayyad Dawud
al-Mu'ayyad Dawud (المؤيد داود) was the fourth Rasulid sultan of Yemen, reigning from 1296 to 1321; his 25-year rule brought prosperity, and his death began the sultanate's decline.
al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi
al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi (المؤيد في الدين الشيرازي), born around 997, was a Persian Ismaili missionary who served the Fatimid Caliphate as chief da'i until his death in Cairo in 1078.
Al-Mu'ayyad Muhammad
Al-Mu'ayyad Muhammad (المؤيد محمد بن القاسم), in full al-Mu'ayyad Billah Muhammad ibn Qasim, was a Zaydi imam of Yemen from 1620 who expelled the Ottomans and organized an independent state.
al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh
al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh (المؤيد سيف الدين شيخ المحمودي) was a Circassian Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 1412 to 1421, who seized the throne by overthrowing Sultan al-Nasir Faraj.
Al-Mu'ayyad Yahya ibn Hamza
Al-Mu'ayyad Yahya ibn Hamza (المؤيد يحيى بن حمزة) was a Zaydi imam of Yemen from 1328 to about 1346, known for the comparative law book al-Intisar.
al-Mu'azzam Isa
Al-Mu'azzam Isa (المعظم عيسى بن العادل) was an Ayyubid ruler of Damascus and Palestine from 1218 to 1227, credited with saving Egypt from the Fifth Crusade.
al-Mu'azzam Turanshah
Al-Mu'azzam Turanshah (المعظم توران شاه) was the last Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, son of al-Salih Ayyub, who reigned 1249 to 1250 and was murdered by Bahri mamluks.
al-Mu'izz ibn Badis
al-Mu'izz ibn Badis (المعز بن باديس) was a Zirid king of Ifriqiya who ruled from 1016 to 1062 and broke with the Fatimids in 1048.
al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah
al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (المعز لدين الله), personal name Abu Tamim Ma'add, was the fourth Fatimid caliph, reigning 953 to 975, during whose rule Egypt was conquered and Cairo founded.
al-Mu'tadid
al-Mu'tadid (المعتضد بالله), in full Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Talha, was caliph of the Abbasid dynasty from 892 to 902, reviving the state's finances and authority and campaigning in person against the Qarmatians.
al-Mu'tadid I
Al-Mu'tad'id I (Al-Mu'tad'id) was the sixth holder of the revived Abbasid caliphate of Cairo. He ruled from 1352 until 1362 among eighteen Abbasids invested under Mamluk rule.
al-Mu'tadid II
Al-Mu'tadid II was the eleventh Abbasid caliph of Cairo under Mamluk rule, reigning 1414–1441 and lending religious sanction to at least seven sultans of Egypt and Syria.
al-Mu'tamid
al-Mu'tamid (المعتمد) was caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 870 to 892, a reign in which real power lay with his brother al-Muwaffaq amid the Zanj revolt.
al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad
al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (المعتمد بن عباد) was the third and last king of the Abbadid taifa of Seville in al-Andalus, reigning from 1069 until the Almoravid conquest in 1091.
al-Mu'tasim
Al-Mu'tasim (المعتصم), in full al-Mu'tasim Bi'llah, was the eighth Abbasid caliph, reigning 833–842, who founded Samarra and made Turkish troops the core of the caliphal army.
al-Mu'tasim (Cairo)
al-Mu'tasim bi-Llah, personal name Zakariya, was an Abbasid caliph of Cairo under Mamluk rule, installed in 788 AH by Sultan al-Zahir Barquq after his brother al-Wathiq died.
Al-Mu'tasim of Almeria
Al-Mu'tasim of Almeria (المعتصم بن صمادح) was king of the taifa of Almeria in al-Andalus from 1052 to 1091, a noted poet and patron of letters whose death in 1091 brought Almeria to the Almoravids.
al-Mu'tazz
al-Mu'tazz (المعتز بالله) was the Abbasid caliph in Samarra who reigned from 866 to 869, son of Caliph al-Mutawakkil, and tried to curb the Turkish troops.
Al-Mubarak ibn Kamil al-Khaffaf al-Baghdadi
Al-Mubarak ibn Kamil al-Khaffaf al-Baghdadi (المبارك بن كامل الخفاف) was a Baghdadi Sunni hadith scholar (1097–1148) known as Mufeed al-Iraq, said to have heard from 3,000 shaykhs.
al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi
Al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi (المفضل الضبي) was a Kufan philologist and transmitter of early Arabic poetry who compiled the Mufaddaliyat, one of the earliest anthologies of ancient Arabic verse.
al-Mughira ibn Abd al-Rahman
Al-Mughira ibn Abd al-Rahman (المغير بن عبد الرحمن) was an Umayyad prince of Cordoba, son of Abd al-Rahman III and brother of al-Hakam II, killed in 976.