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Muqaddam
Muqaddam is an Arabic title, adopted in other Islamic cultures, for an official, such as in the Tijaniyyah sufi orderin Bengal, the Muqaddam (in some places he was called Mukhiya) was the village headmen, trough whom the government dealt with the peasants. ..

Muqaddar Ka Sikander
Muqaddar Ka Sikandar is a 1978 Indian Hindi film. Directed by Prakash Mehra, it stars Amitabh Bachchan in his 3rd out of 6 films with Prakash Mehra to date. The films also stars Vinod Khanna, Rakhee, Rekha and Amjad Khan. ..

Muqaddimah
The Muqaddimah, or the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun (Arabic: مقدّمة ابن خلدون), records an early Muslim view of 'universal history'. Many modern thinkers view it as one of the first works of sociology. The Arab historian Ibn Khaldun wrote the work in 1377 as the preface or first book of ..

Muqam
A muqam is the melody type used in Uyghur music, that is, a musical mode and set of melodic formulas used to guide improvisation and composition. The muqam system developed among the Uyghur in northwest China and Central Asia over approximately the last 500 years from the Arabic maqamat modal syste..

Muqarnas
Muqarnas (مقرنس) is a traditional Islamic and Persian architectural style of decoration. The term is similar to mocárabe, but mocárabe only refers to designs with formations resembling stalactites. It usually consists of three-dimensional wedge forms that are combined into intricate design..

Muqata'ah
One of the most important topics of the Ottoman financial history is the institution of muqata'ah which functioned as an instrument in financing state expenses. The Ottoman bureaucrats of finance, by means of this institution, tried to meet state currency needs, raise loans in the interior and incor..

Muqatta'at
A tree diagram of the Qur'anic initial letters, labelled with the respective numbers of occurrences. To be read right to left. 29 suras (chapters) of the Qur'an begin with letters taken from a restricted subset of the Arabic alphabet; these are the Muqatta`at (مقطعات), sometimes translat..

Muqawqis
al-Muqawqis is usually identified with Cyrus, Archbishop of Alexandria and vicegerent of Egypt, who administered Egypt on behalf of the Byzantine Empire. The theory is that al-Muqawqis is an arabization of Coptic Pikaukasos meaning "Caucasian." The word was subsequently used by Arab writers for som..

Muqayshit
Muqayshit is the largest island of the United Arab Emirates is lies near the central south coast in the Al-Khatan desert area , southwest of Abu Zaby. It is uninhabited, excpept for some Bedeuins. ..

Muqdadiyah
Muqdadiyah (also transliterated Al-Muqdadiyah, Muqdadia, Miqdadiyah) is a major city in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq. This city was a part of the Persian Sassanid Empire and had the Persian name Shahrban, meaning "city-protector". After the Arab attack on Iran, Arabs changed the Persian name to t..

Muqim Arzani
Muhammad Akbar ibn Mir Hajji Muhammad Muqim Arzani was a physician from Persia. Arzani was a celebrated Sufi physician of the late 17th and early 18th century. He composed many medical treatises, including the Qarabadin-i Qadiri, a pharmacopoeia written as a tribute to Sayyid Abd al-Qadir of Gilan..

Muqi Fachang
Muqi Fachang (Wade-Giles: Mu-hsi Fa-ch'ang) was a Chinese Zen Buddhist monk and renowned painter who lived in the 13th century, around the end of the Southern Song dynasty. His birth name is unknown: Muqi was a hao or pseudonym, and Fachang a monastic name. Muqi's artwork covered a wide range of su..

Muqran bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud
Prince Muqran bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud (born September 15, 1945, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) is a member of the House of Saud and the second-youngest son of the founder of Saudi Arabia, `Abd al-`Azīz Āl Sa`ūd. Currently he is governor of the province of Medina, which contains Islam's second-holiest city ..

Muqtada al-Sadr
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Muqui, Espírito Santo
Muqui is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Espírito Santo. Its estimated population in 2004 was of 13.696 inhabitants. ..

Muqur
Muqur could refer to: Muqur, a town in OmanMuqur, a district in Ghazni Province, AfghanistanMuqur, a district in Badghis Province, Afghanistan This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish ..

Muqur, Ghazni
Muqur (also spelt Moqur) is a district in the southwest of Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is mostly Pashtun along with a few Hazara and Tajik, was estimated at 70,900 in 2002, of whom around 20,000 were children under 12. References [UNHCR District Profile], accessed ..

Mu Qing
Mu Qing Hanyu PinyinMù Qīng Simplified Chinese穆青 Traditional Chinese穆青 Date of Birth:March 15, 1921 Place of Birth: Bengbu (蚌埠), Anhui (安徽), China Date of Death:October 11, 2003 Mù Qīng (穆青) (March 15, 1921 - October 11, 2003) was a journalist, author and photographer. H..

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