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al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba
al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba (المغيرة بن شعبة) was a Companion of Muhammad and governor of Basra and Kufa, famed for shrewdness and for securing Ziyad ibn Abih's allegiance to Mu'awiya.
al-Mughith Umar
al-Mughith Umar (المغيث عمر), also honored as al-Malik al-Mughith, was an Ayyubid prince and son of Sultan al-Malik al-Adil II who ruled Karak in southern Jordan.
Al-Muhajiroun (organization)
Al-Muhajiroun, a UK-based Islamist network founded in 1996 by Omar Bakri Mohammed and later led by Anjem Choudary, seeks an Islamic state in Britain; proscribed under shifting names and linked to UK terrorism cases.
al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra
al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra (المهلّب بن أبي صفرة) was an Arab general who served the Umayyad caliphate, defeated the Azariqa Kharijites, and governed Khurasan until his death in 702.
Al-Muhallabi
Al-Muhallabi (المهلبي) is the historian's name for al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Muhallabi, a tenth-century geographer who wrote the Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik for the Fatimid caliph al-Aziz and died in 990.
al-Muhasibi
al-Muhasibi (المحاسبي), in full Abu Abdallah al-Harith ibn Asad al-Muhasibi, was a Muslim ascetic and theologian of the Abbasid caliphate who wrote al-Ri'aya li-huquq Allah and taught Junayd al-Baghdadi.
Al-Muhtadee Billah
Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah (born 1974), eldest son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Crown Prince of Brunei since 10 August 1998, Senior Minister at the Prime Minister's Office since 2005, Oxford-educated, and lawful successor under the Succession and Regency Proclamation.
al-Muhtadi
Al-Muhtadi (المهتدي بالله) was an Abbasid caliph who reigned from 869 to 870, tried to break the power of the Turkish military commanders, and was deposed and tortured to death in June 870.
al-Muktafi
al-Muktafi (المكتفي) was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 902 to 908, whose reign ended the Tulunid dynasty and crushed the Qarmatians in Iraq and Syria.
Al-Mulk (الملك)
Al-Mulk (الملك), also called Surat al-Mulk or Surat Tabarak, is the 67th chapter of the Quran, a Makkan surah of 30 verses on God's sovereignty.
al-Mundhir I
Al-Mundhir I (المنذر الأول) was a king of the Lakhmid dynasty who ruled al-Hira in central Iraq, succeeding his father al-Nu'man I in the fifth century.
Al-Mundhir ibn Yahya al-Tujibi
Al-Mundhir ibn Yahya al-Tujibi (المنذر بن يحيى التجيبي), known as Mundir I, was the first Tujibid ruler of the taifa of Zaragoza from about 1013 until his death around 1021.
al-Mundhir III ibn al-Numan
al-Mundhir III ibn al-Numan (المنذر الثالث بن النعمان) was a Lakhmid king of al-Hira in central Iraq, a Sasanian client who reigned from 503 to 554.
al-Muntasir
al-Muntasir (المنتصر), in full al-Muntasir bi'llah, was the eleventh Abbasid caliph, reigning in Samarra from December 861 to June 862 after his father al-Mutawakkil was assassinated.
al-Muntazam
Al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa al-Umam (المنتظم) is a universal chronicle by Ibn al-Jawzi of Baghdad, narrating history year by year with over 2,500 biographies, and a reference for later historians.
al-Muqaddasi
Al-Muqaddasi (المقدسي) was a tenth-century Arab geographer born in Jerusalem who traveled most of the Islamic world and wrote Ahsan al-Taqasim, completed around 985, a principal Arabic geographical work.
al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab
Al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab (المقلد بن المسيب) was an Arab chief of the Banu Uqayl who seized Mosul from its Buyid governors in 996 and founded Uqaylid rule there.
al-Muqanna
al-Muqanna (المقنع, "the veiled one"), usually identified as Hashim ibn Hakim, led a religious revolt in Sogdiana and Khurasan against the Abbasid caliphate in the late eighth century.
al-Muqtabis
Al-Muqtabis (المقتبس) is a chronicle of al-Andalus in about ten volumes by the Cordoban historian Ibn Hayyan (987/8–1076), covering the Umayyad emirs and caliphs; only scattered parts survive.
al-Muqtadi
Al-Muqtadi (المقتدي), in full al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allah, was the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad from 1075 to 1094, ruling under Seljuk overlordship during their period of greatest power.
al-Muqtadir
al-Muqtadir (المقتدر), in full al-Muqtadir billah, was an Abbasid caliph who reigned from 908 to 932, acceded at thirteen, was twice deposed temporarily, and was killed in 932.
Al-Muqtadir of Zaragoza
Al-Muqtadir of Zaragoza (المقتدر بن هود) was the second Hudid king of the taifa of Zaragoza in al-Andalus, reigning from 1046 until 1081 or 1082.
al-Muqtafi
al-Muqtafi (المقتفي لأمر الله), fully al-Muqtafi li-Amr Allah, was the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad from 1136 to 1160 who recovered military power for the caliphate, ending Seljuq ambitions toward Baghdad.
Al-Muqtataf
Al-Muqtataf (المقتطف, "The Digest") was an influential Arabic-language monthly science magazine published from 1876 to 1952, first in Beirut and later Cairo, during the Arab Nahda.
Al-Murtada al-Zabidi
Al-Murtada al-Zabidi (المرتضى الزبيدي) was an 18th-century hadith scholar, lexicographer, and Sufi, born in India in 1732, who settled in Cairo and compiled the Arabic dictionary Taj al-'Arus.
al-Musabbihi
Al-Musabbihi (المسبحي) was a Fatimid official and historian of Egypt who served Caliph al-Hakim as governor of two Upper Egyptian provinces and head of the Diwan al-Tartib.
Al-Musrati (المعتصم بالله علي محمد المصراتي)
Al-Musrati (Almoatasembellah Ali Mohamed Al-Musrati, الْمُعْتَصِم بِالله عَلِيّ مُحَمَّد الْمِصْرَاتِيّ), Libyan defensive midfielder born 1996 in Misrata; Braga, Beşiktaş (€11M), Monaco and Hellas Verona loans; Libya international.
Al-Mussaib Thermal power plant
The Al-Mussaib Thermal Power Plant (محطة المسيب الحرارية) is an oil-fired steam power station about 75 km south of Baghdad, commissioned in 1987 with four units and a capacity of about 1,200 MW.
al-Musta'in
Al-Musta'in (المستعين بالله), personal name Ahmad ibn Muhammad, was the Abbasid caliph from 862 to 866; raised by Turkish commanders, he fled to Baghdad, lost the civil war, and was executed in 866.
al-Musta'in (Cairo)
Al-Musta'in (al-Musta'in billah) was an Abbasid caliph of Cairo from 1406 to 1414, son of al-Mutawakkil I, and the only caliph briefly made Mamluk sultan, in 1412.