Fatima.Mernessi_The-Forgotten-Queens-of-Islam-EN

Mahdi, Shi'ite, 164-5
al-Mahdi, caliph, 60, 80; and
Khayzuran 37, 51, 53, 54, 57-8,
65, 184
al-Mahdi al-Fatimi ('Ubayd Allah
al-Mahdi), Fatimid caliph, 22,
127, 128
Maknuna, 54
Maldive Islands, 107-10
Malik Ibn Anas, 33
malik (title), 12, 13, 72
Malikshah, 27-8
Mamluks, 14, 29, 89-99, 105-6
al-Ma'mun, caliph, 57
Mancha, 161
al-Mandri (I or II), 18, 19
Manku Timur (Ahmad Teguder),
24, 101, 104
Mansur Ibn Najah, 140
al-Mansur, caliph, 53, 57, 149-53
al-Maqarri, Ahmad Ibn
Muhammad, 47-8
al-Maqrizi, Taqi al-Din Ahmad
Ibn 'Ali, 168, 175
Marco Polo, 109
Maria the Copt, 56
marriage: mut'a, 154; polyandry,
118; polygyny, 13, 53-4, 98;
queens as sole wives, 88, 98-9;
repudiation of wives, 13
al-Mas'udi, Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, 39,
40, 77-8, 143, 144, 182-3
al-Mawardi, Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, 72
al-Mawsili, Ibrahim, 55
al-Mawsili, Ishaq Ibn Ibrahim, 55
Mecca: Ghaliyya al-Wahhabiyya
defends, 20; haram area, 63;
Isma'ili conquest, 129, 134;
Ka'ba, 133, 137; pilgrimage,
127, 130, 134, 135-8, 145, (pre-
Islamic), 63, 132-3; Prophet's
flight from, 133; slaves from, 59;
trading centre, 73
Medina, 74-7, 133
Mehdia, 128
Index 225
meritocracy, 122, 150
military leadership, 63, 66, 77;
slaves, 122; women, 20, 66
minbar (pulpit of mosque), 67,
76-7
Miskawiya, 41
Mongols: Buddhism, 100, 101;
conversion to Islam, 21, 101,
104; khatuns, 21, 99-107, 110;
Mamluk resistance, 29, 90, 99,
105-6; in Persia, 24-5, 104; sack
of Baghdad, 24, 26-7, 29;
women's status, 21, 86, 102-4,
106-7
Morocco, 10, 18, 19, 31, 187
mosques: caliphs assassinated in,
179-81; caliphs' guards, 77-8,
80; first, in Medina, 74-7;
minbar (pulpit), 67, 76-7;
political function, 75, 79;
Prophet and 74-7, 81; of San'a,
148; women in, 73, 80-4
Mu'awiya, caliph, 73, 77-8, 80,
126, 171, 172
al-Mughira Ibn Shu'ba, 180
Muhammad, the prophet: descent
from, 15-16, 22, 122, 125-6,
128, 153; on equality, 56, 122,
183; flight to Medina, 74-7, 133;
and khutba, 74-7, 78; military
expeditions, 77; and mosque,
74-7, 81; personal charisma, 78;
pilgrimage, 132-3; relics of, 24;
return, doctrine of, 120; and
slavery, 56, 60, 122; style of
leadership, 74-8, 80, 122, 150,
183; and women, 56, 75, 80-4,
153, 196
Muhammad Abu 'Abdallah, 16-17
Muhammad Ibn al-Fath, 24
Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan Zaydan,
164
Muhammad Ibn 'Ali al-Sulayhi,
131
Muhammad al-Wattasi, 19