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Madih nabawi
Madih nabawi, meaning prophetic praise, is the Arabic poetic genre of verses in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, whose canonical text is al-Busiri's 13th-century Burda.
Madol Doova
Madol Doova (මඩොල් දූව) is a 1947 Sinhala children's adventure novel by Martin Wickramasinghe, following two village boys, Upali and Jinna, who run away to live on an uninhabited island.
Maduraikkanci
Maduraikkanci (மதுரைக்காஞ்சி) is a Tamil poem of the Sangam age, the sixth and longest of the Ten Idylls, composed by Māṅkuṭi Marutaṉār in praise of the Pandya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ.
Mafia Queens of Mumbai
Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands, a 2011 Tranquebar Press true-crime book by S. Hussain Zaidi with Jane Borges profiling 13 women of Mumbai's underworld; source of the 2022 film Gangubai Kathiawadi.
Magdalana Mariam
Magdalana Mariam (മഗ്ദലനമറിയം) is a Malayalam khandakavyam, a short narrative poem by Vallathol Narayana Menon written in 1921, retelling Mary Magdalene's path from sin to repentance and credited with pioneering Christian symbolism in Malayalam poetry.
Maggie Greene
Maggie Greene (later Maggie Rhee), The Walking Dead character by Robert Kirkman, debuting in Image Comics issue #10 (2004) and played by Lauren Cohan; Hershel's daughter, Glenn's wife, Hilltop leader, comic Commonwealth President.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a naturalist novella by Stephen Crane, self-published under a pseudonym in 1893, depicting a young woman's fall in New York's Bowery slums.
Magic in Harry Potter
Magic in Harry Potter: the wand-and-incantation system of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world, also called the magic system of the Potterverse. Distinguished by the 1692 International Statute of Secrecy, Gamp's Law limits on conjuring food, and a 'firm' rule level between hard and soft fantasy magic.
Magic Maker
Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World (マジック・メイカー ～異世界魔法の作り方～) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Kazuki Kaburagi and Kururi about Shion, a reincarnated boy creating magic in a world without it; adapted into a 2025 Studio DEEN anime and Seven Seas manga and light novels.
Magic realism
Magic realism (magical realism): narrative mode interweaving fantastical elements into realistic, known-world settings; coined by Franz Roh in 1925 for painting, central to Latin American fiction since Carpentier and García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Magic Repo Man
Magic Repo Man (貸した魔力は〖リボ払い〗で強制徴収) is a Masakichi web novel about Lent, who lends MP to party members and later repossesses it. Manga by Shingō Iijima; 2026 SynergySP anime on TV Asahi, streamed on Crunchyroll.
Magic Tree House
Magic Tree House is Mary Pope Osborne's Random House children's chapter book series, begun with Dinosaurs Before Dark in 1992, in which siblings Jack and Annie time-travel in a magic tree house; over 143 million copies sold in 39 languages, with Merlin Missions, Fact Trackers, and graphic novels.
Magical Buffs: The Support Caster Is Stronger Than He Realized!
Magical Buffs: The Support Caster Is Stronger Than He Realized! (雑用付与術師が自分の最強に気付くまで) is a Haka Tokura light novel and Shin Arakawa manga from Futabasha about support mage Wim Strauss and the A-rank party Nachtlibelle, licensed in English by Seven Seas, with an anime premiering January 4, 2027.
Magical Girl Dandelion
Magical Girl Dandelion (魔法少女ダンデライオン, Mahou Shoujo Dandelion) is a shōjo manga by Kaeru Mizuho, serialized in Shogakukan's Sho-Comi since August 2024, about magical girl Tanpopo Ohanami and her fiend friend Shade; VIZ simulpubs it in English under Shojo Beat.
Magical Girl Raising Project (魔法少女育成計画)
Magical Girl Raising Project (魔法少女育成計画, Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku) is a Japanese light novel series by Asari Endō and Maruino (Takarajimasha, 2012) about sixteen magical girls forced into a survival contest, adapted into a 2016 anime and a 2026 restart anime.
Magical objects in Harry Potter
Magical objects in Harry Potter: enchanted items in J.K. Rowling's wizarding world, from wands and broomsticks to the Deathly Hallows, Horcruxes, Time-Turner, Marauder's Map, and Deluminator, many Ministry-regulated.
Magical Warfare (魔法戦争)
Magical Warfare (魔法戦争, Mahō Sensō) is a 12-volume Japanese light novel series by Suzuki Hisashi with illustrations by Rulia, published under MF Bunko J from 2011, adapted into a 2014 Madhouse TV anime and a Monthly Comic Gene manga.
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard is Rick Riordan's Norse-mythology trilogy (Disney-Hyperion, 2015-2017): The Sword of Summer, The Hammer of Thor, and The Ship of the Dead, set in Boston, starring Annabeth Chase's cousin Magnus, son of Frey, with genderfluid Alex Fierro and Muslim Valkyrie Samirah.
Magpie Murders
Magpie Murders (2016) by Anthony Horowitz is a mystery within a mystery: editor Susan Ryeland reads fictional author Alan Conway's final Atticus Pünd whodunnit, set in 1950s Saxby-on-Avon, and investigates Conway's own death when the last chapter goes missing; adapted for PBS Masterpiece in 2022.
Maha Yazawin
Maha Yazawin, the Great Chronicle, is a Burmese royal chronicle by U Kala, the first extensive national chronicle of Burma, probably written in the 1720s.
Mahabharata
Mahabharata (महाभारत), also Jaya or Bharata, the major Sanskrit epic of the Kaurava-Pandava war attributed to Vyasa, over 100,000 shlokas in 18 parvas, preserved in Northern and Southern recensions and reconstructed in the BORI Critical Edition.
Mahabharatam (Kilippattu)
Mahabharatam Kilippattu is a Malayalam verse retelling of the Sanskrit Mahabharata in the parrot-song kilippattu style by Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan, first printed complete in 1862.
Mahajatra
Mahajatra, also known as Mahayatra, is an unfinished Odia-language epic poem by Radhanath Ray, dated 1896. A reinvention of the Mahabharata, it ranks among the major kavyas of modern Odia poetry.
Mahakavya
Mahākāvya (महाकाव्य, "great poem"; also sargabandha) is a genre of Indian epic poetry in Classical Sanskrit, a long court epic in cantos, ruled by codified requirements.
Mahaprasthan
Mahaprasthan (મહાપ્રસ્થાન) is a 1965 collection of seven verse dramas by the Gujarati poet Umashankar Joshi, drawing episodes from the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the life of the Buddha.
Mahaprasthanam
Mahaprasthanam (మహాప్రస్థానం, "The Great Journey") is a landmark anthology of Telugu poems by Sri Sri, published in 1950 and treated as a manifesto of the progressive movement in Telugu letters.
Mahaprithibi
Mahaprithibi (মহাপৃথিবী, "The Great World") is a 1944 Bengali poetry collection by Jibanananda Das, his fourth book of verse, where critics see his poetic consciousness reach maturity.
Mahapurana
Mahapurana (महापुराण) is a 10th-century Apabhramsha Jain narrative epic by Pushpadanta, composed between 959 and 965 CE, retelling the lives of the 63 shalakapurushas of Jain tradition and ending with Mahavira's nirvana.
Mahavastu
The Mahavastu ("Great Story," Sanskrit महावस्तु) is a Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit biography of Shakyamuni Buddha, the earliest Sanskrit biography, belonging to the Vinayapitaka of the Lokottaravada school.
Mahaviracarita
Mahaviracarita (Mahāvīracarita, महावीरचरितम्; "The Deeds of the Great Hero") is a seven-act Sanskrit drama by the eighth-century poet-playwright Bhavabhūti, based on the early life of Rama of the Ramayana.