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 Maimuna 165 Majju Maimuna, ^-Ij+i**, the daughter of Harith or Haris, was one of the wives of Muhammad, who married her in the eighth year of the Hijri, i. e., in 629 A. D. This was doubtless another marriage of policy, for Maimuna was 51 years of age, and a widow, but the connexion gained him two powerful proselytes. One was Khalid, the son of Wali'd, a nephew of the widow, who by his prowess obtained the appellation of " The Sword of God." The other was Khalid's friend, 'Amru the son of 'As ; the same who assailed Muhammad with poetry and satire at the commencement of his prophetic career. Maimuna was the last spouse of the prophet, and, old as she was at her marriage, survived nearly all his other wives. She died many years after him in a pavilion at Sarif, under the same tree in the shade of which her nuptial tent had been pitched, and was there interred. This event took place about the year 671 A. D., 51 A. H. Maisana, ^^•^'"f the Bedouin bride of the khali'f Mu'awia I, and the mother of Yezid, was a daughter of the tribe of Kalab ; a tribe remarkable for the piuity of dialect spoken in it. She was married to Mu'awia wliilst very young ; but this exalted situation by no means suited the disposition of Maisana, and amidst all the pomp and splendour of Damascus, she languished for the simple pleasures of her native desert. She was an excellent poetess, and had pleased Mu'awia' s fancy to that degree with some of her verses, that he made her go back into the desert amongst her own relations, and take her son Yezid along with her, that he also might be brought up a poet. This part of his education succeeded, for he was reckoned to excel in that way, though his chief talent con- sisted in making himself a drunken wretch. Maisana did not revisit Damascus till after the death of Mu'awia, when Yezid ascended the throne. Majd Hamkar Farsi, ij^J^j^*^ also caUed Majd-uddin Haibat-ullah, vide Majd-uddin Hamkar. Majd, Maulana, "^^^ ^^"'j author of the work called " Eauzat ul-Khuld." Majd-Uddaula, ^J'^^^ <^^'°, a Sultan of the race of Boya called Boyaites, was the son of Pakhr-uddaula, the brother of 'Azd-uddaula, Sultan of Fars and Irak. He had for a short time governed Khurasan and assumed a regal state, but was taken prisoner in Kei, by the victorious Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni in 1029 A. D., 420 A. H. He had been raised by the death of his father in August, 997 A. D., Sha'ban 387 A. H. when very young, to the govern- ment of the city and the surrounding country. Diu-ing the minority of this prince, all the power was in the hands of liis mother. Mahmud commanded one of his officers to inform the lady, that she must submit to his authority, or prepare for war. " Had such a message been sent," replied the heroine, " in the life of my deceas ed lord, it must have occasioned great embarrassment. That is not the case now. I know Sultan Mahmud ; and from his character, am assured he will never under- take an expedition without calculating all the chances. If he attack and conquer a weak woman, where is the glory of such an achievement ? If he be repulsed, the latest ages will hear of the shame of such a defeat !" Mahmud, either swayed by the above reasons, or others of more weight, did not prosecute his designs upon Eei, till Majd-uddaula was of age, and had assumed the reins of government. He then advanced an army ; by the leader of which the prince was deluded to an interview, and seized : his treasures and dominions passed into the hands of Mahmud ; who sent him, and his family pri- soners to Ghazni. Majd-uddaula, *J>'^I lis:-*, title of 'Abdul Maj id Khan, which see. 42 Majd-uddin Ahmad ibn-Muhammad Sajawandi, ■J.4.=:^^^J| ^^^oJ c^s:'^^ author of a com- mentary or Tafsir called " 'Afn ul-Ma'ani." There is another work of the same title on Sufiism written by Shahab-uddin Burhanpiiri. Majd-uddin Baghdadi, L5'il'>>*J a pupil and disciple of Shaikh Najm-uddin Kubra. He is stated to have been a very religious and upright man, and was employed as a physician to Sultan Muhammad surnamed Kutb-uddm king of Khwarizm. It is said that he pri- vately got married to the rhother of the Sultan, who no sooner heard of it, than he ordered Majd-uddin to be thrown into a lake where he died. This circumstance took place 1219 A. D., 616 A. H., and a short time after, the Sultan was defeated and his country pillaged by Changez Khan. Majd-uddin Bilkani, ts'^^k'. i^i"^^^ <^'^, an author. Majd-uddin Hamkar Farsi, c^r;'* t:^*^' "^^j also called Majd-uddin Haibat-ullah and Majd Hamkar, i. e., Majd the weaver. His poetical title is Majd and Eihi. He was a native of Shfraz and derived his descent from Anusherwan. He was in high favour with the Atabak Sa'd Abii Bakr bin-Zangi and a cotemporary of Sa'di. Under Abakaan, the Tartar king of Persia, he was made governor of Shiraz where he died upwards of 90 years of age in 1287 A. D., 686 A. H., and left a Diwan in Persian. In his time, people used to call him the king of poets. Majd-uddin Isma'il, Shaikh, e^J'^^l ti^r*-*-^', was Kazi of Shiraz in the reign of Shah Shaikh 'Abii Is-hak Khwaja Hafiz who praises him in one of his odes, and has found the year of his demise to be con- tained in the words " Kahmat Hak" i. e., the mercy of God. He died on Wednesday the 29th of July, 1355 A. D., 18th Eajab, 766 A. H. Majd-uddin Khalil, i^i^^ i^A^I "^^j a poet who was a contemporary of Khakanf and wrote poetry in his praise. Majd-uddin Muhammad bin-Ya'kub bin-Mu- hammad, •^♦^^ liH iiri"^' commonly called Ffrozabadi, is the author of the much- esteemed and very copious Lexicon in Arabic called the " Ramus," or " Bahr ul-Muhit," The Ocean, dedicated to bin-Abbas, prince of Arabia Felix. He died 1414 A. D., 817 A. H., vide Firozabadi. Majd ul-Mulk, a nobleman of the court of Sultan Abka Khan. He was put to death at the instiga- tion of Shams-uddfn Muhammad commonly called Sahib Diwan, on suspicion of sorcerj', in the reign of Sultan Ahmad Khan, in August, 1282 A. D., 20th Jumada' I, 681 A. H., and not long after Shams-uddin had to under- go the same fate. Majir,, vide Mujfr. Ma'jiZ, 3^*^J i^^^ Nizam Khiin Ma'jiz. Ma'jizi, LSj^^'° } ^ '^o&t who was a cotemporary of Eukn- uddin Kabaf, and master of the poet Badr-uddin Jajurmi. Majju Khan, Nawab, v!y cj^^, a chief of the rebels who caused himself to be proclaimed Nawab of Muradabad, and instigated the people to murder and plunder Europeans, was captured with his son in the latter part of April, 1858 A. D.