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Mularaja II

Mularaja II (मूलराज द्वितीय), called Bala Mularaja, was a Chaulukya king of Gujarat who took the throne as a boy in about 1176 and repelled Muhammad of Ghor's invasion in 1178.

Mulawarman

Mulawarman was a king of Kutai in eastern Borneo, remembered through seven Sanskrit inscriptions on yupa pillars, the oldest known written records of the Indonesian archipelago.

Mulla Abdul Ghafur

Mulla Abdul Ghafur (ملا عبد الغفور) was a Bohra ship-owning merchant of Surat in Mughal Gujarat who built a fleet of 17 ships and held standing at the Mughal court.

Mulla Ali Nuri

Mulla Ali Nuri (ملا علی نوری) was a Persian philosopher and mystic of the school of transcendent wisdom, who taught in Isfahan and died there in 1831.

Mulla Hadi Sabzavari

Mulla Hadi Sabzavari (ملا هادی سبزواری) was an Iranian philosopher, theologian, and poet of the Qajar period, the era's most famous Islamic philosopher, who taught in Sabzavar from 1836 until his death in 1873.

Mulla Muhammad Baqir Sabzavari

Mulla Muhammad Baqir Sabzavari (ملا محمد باقر سبزواری), known as Muhaqqiq Sabzevari, was a Shia jurist of Safavid Iran who wrote Kifayat al-ahkam and died in 1679.

Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani

Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani (فیض کاشانی) was a Persian philosopher, jurist, and hadith scholar of Safavid Iran, known for his Sufi mysticism and his hadith compendium al-Wafi.

Mulla Nusrati

Mulla Nusrati (ملا نصرتی) was a Dakhni Urdu poet of seventeenth-century Bijapur, court poet to Sultan Ali Adil Shah II, who wrote Gulshan-i Ishq and the Ali Namah.

Mulla Shah Badakhshi

Mulla Shah Badakhshi (ملا شاہ بادخشی), also known as Shah Mohammad, was a Qadiri Sufi master of Lahore and Kashmir and the spiritual guide of Dara Shikoh and Jahanara Begum.

Mulla Shukrullah Shirazi

Mulla Shukrullah Shirazi (ملا شکر اللہ شیرازی), titled Afzal Khan, was a Persian-born administrator who rose to become wazir, or chief minister, of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, serving until his death in 1639.

Mulla Wajhi

Mulla Wajhi (ملا وجہی) was a Dakhni poet and prose writer at the Qutb Shahi court of Golconda, serving four sultans from Ibrahim to Abdullah Qutb Shah.

Mulla Zuhuri

Mulla Zuhuri (ملا ظہوری), born in Khorasan around 1537, was a Persian poet and poet laureate who served the Ahmadnagar and Bijapur courts and died in 1616.

Mulla-bashi

The Mulla-bashi (ملا باشی) was the head of the religious institution in late Safavid Iran, created under Shah Sultan Husayn around 1715 and serving as the shah's religious adviser.

Mullissu-mukannishat-Ninua

Mullissu-mukannishat-Ninua was a queen of Assyria in the ninth century BC, wife of King Ashurnasirpal II and the first queen attested in the Neo-Assyrian Period.

Mulraj Chopra

Mulraj Chopra (Mulraj Chopra/ಮೂಲិតਰਾಜ್ ಚೋಪ್ರಾ), the Diwan of Multan, led a 1848 rebellion after British officers were murdered, sparking the Second Anglo-Sikh War and the kingdom's annexation.

Mulraj of Multan

Mulraj of Multan (मुलराज), born 1814, was the Sikh governor of Multan under the Lahore Durbar; the 1848 killing of two British officers during his transfer forced his rebellion, starting the Second Anglo-Sikh War.

Multi-proxy analysis

Multi-proxy analysis applies several independent analytical techniques, or proxies, to the same sample, object, or sediment core, so dating, provenance, and paleoenvironmental findings can be cross-checked.

Muluki Ain

The Muluki Ain (मुलुकी ऐन) was the general legal code of Nepal, promulgated in 1854 under King Surendra Vikrama Shaha at the initiative of Prime Minister Janga Bahadura Rana.

Mummies 317a and 317b

Mummies 317a and 317b are two mummified fetuses found in 1922 in Tutankhamun's tomb KV62, likely his stillborn daughters, deliberately embalmed and buried with him.

Mummy Juanita

Mummy Juanita, the Ice Maiden or Dama de Ampato, is a frozen Inca girl sacrificed in the capacocha ritual on Ampato volcano, found in 1995 after Sabancaya's eruption melted the ice, held at Arequipa's Museo Santuarios Andinos.

Mumyōshō

Mumyōshō (無名抄), also known as Mumyō hishō, is an essayistic treatise on waka poetry written by Kamo no Chōmei in about 80 sections around 1212.

Mun of Balhae

Mun of Balhae (문왕, 文王; personal name Dae Heummu) was the third king of Balhae, reigning from 737 to 793 and completing its state institutions.

Mun'im Khan

Mun'im Khan (منعم خاں), a Turkish noble born in 1497, served Humayun and Akbar as Vakil, titled Khan-i-Khanan, and led the conquest of Bengal in 1574 to 1575.

Munagacherla Mound

Munagacherla Mound, an early historic habitation site at Munagacherla village, Nandigama Mandal, Krishna/NTR district, Andhra Pradesh; occupied from the 3rd to 16th century CE and a centrally protected ASI monument (survey plot No. 37).

Munda rebellion

The Munda rebellion (मुंडा विद्रोह), called the ulgulan or "Great Tumult", was an 1899–1900 uprising of Munda adivasis in Chotanagpur, led by Birsa Munda against land alienation and British rule.

Mundhir ibn Sa'id al-Balluti

Mundhir ibn Sa'id al-Balluti (منذر بن سعيد البلوطي) was an Andalusi jurist and poet who served as chief qadi of Cordoba from 950 until his death in 966.

Mungo Park (explorer)

Mungo Park (1771–1805/6), Scottish surgeon and African Association explorer, reached the Niger in 1796; his 1799 Travels became a bestseller; he drowned at Bussa on the 1805 government expedition.

Munjong of Goryeo

Munjong (문종), personal name Wang Hui, was the 11th king of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, reigning from 1046 to 1083 and systematizing Goryeo's law and land administration.

Munjong of Joseon

Munjong of Joseon (문종 이향), personal name Yi Hyang, was the eldest son of King Sejong who reigned over Joseon Korea from 1450 to 1452.

Munju of Baekje

Munju of Baekje (문주왕) was the 22nd king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, reigning from 475 to 477 and moving the capital to Ungjin.