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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1241449095">.mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","SBL Hebrew","Taamey Frank CLM","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">מלך</span>‎ (<i>melekh</i>) in large red text.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Malik</b> (<a href="/wiki/Phoenician_language" title="Phoenician language">Phoenician</a>: <span lang="phn"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%A4%8C%F0%90%A4%8B%F0%90%A4%8A#Phoenician" class="extiw" title="wikt:𐤌𐤋𐤊">𐤌𐤋𐤊</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9A#Hebrew" class="extiw" title="wikt:מלך">מֶלֶךְ</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83#Arabic" class="extiw" title="wikt:ملك">ملك</a></span>; variously Romanized <i>Mallik</i>, <i>Melik</i>, <i>Malka</i>, <i>Malek</i>, <i>Maleek</i>, <i>Malick</i>, <i>Mallick</i>, <i>Melekh</i>) is the <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic</a> term translating to "<a href="/wiki/King_(title)" class="mw-redirect" title="King (title)">king</a>", recorded in <a href="/wiki/East_Semitic" class="mw-redirect" title="East Semitic">East Semitic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>, and as <b>mlk</b> in <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Semitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwest Semitic">Northwest Semitic</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Bronze Age">Late Bronze Age</a> (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Aramaic" title="Aramaic">Aramaic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canaanite_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Canaanite language">Canaanite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>). </p><p>Although the early forms of the name were to be found among the pre-Arab and pre-Islamic Semitic speakers of <a href="/wiki/The_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="The Levant">the Levant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>, it has since been adopted in various other, mainly but not exclusively <a href="/wiki/Islamization" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamization">Islamized</a> or <a href="/wiki/Arabization" title="Arabization">Arabized</a> non-Semitic <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Asia" title="Languages of Asia">Asian languages</a> for their ruling princes and to render kings elsewhere. It is also sometimes used in derived meanings. </p><p>The female version of Malik is <b>Malikah</b> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9#Arabic" class="extiw" title="wikt:ملكة">ملكة</a></span>; or its various spellings such as <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%87#Persian" class="extiw" title="wikt:ملکه">Malekeh</a></i> or <i>Melike</i>), meaning "queen". </p><p>The name Malik was originally found among various pre-Arab and non-Muslim Semitic speakers such as the indigenous ethnic <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a> of <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amorites" title="Amorites">Amorites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arameans" title="Arameans">Arameans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mandeans" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandeans">Mandeans</a>, other <a href="/wiki/Syriac_language" title="Syriac language">Syriac</a> speaking ethnic groups, and pre-Islamic <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a>. It has since been spread among various predominantly Muslim and non-Semitic peoples in <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, and <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Moloch" title="Moloch">Moloch</a></div> <p>The earliest form of the name <i>Maloka</i> was used to denote a prince or chieftain in the <a href="/wiki/East_Semitic_languages" title="East Semitic languages">East Semitic</a> <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_language" title="Akkadian language">Akkadian</a> language of the <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian" class="mw-redirect" title="Mesopotamian">Mesopotamian</a> states of <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_Empire" title="Akkadian Empire">Akkad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chaldea" title="Chaldea">Chaldea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. (September 2021)">full citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The Northwest Semitic <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/malk-" class="extiw" title="wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/malk-">mlk</a></i> was the title of the rulers of the primarily <a href="/wiki/Amorite" class="mw-redirect" title="Amorite">Amorite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suteans" title="Suteans">Sutean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaanite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phoenicia" title="Phoenicia">Phoenician</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arameans" title="Arameans">Aramean</a> city-states of the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a> and <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Bronze Age">Late Bronze Age</a>. Eventual derivatives include the Aramaic, Neo-Assyrian, Mandaic and Arabic forms: <i>Malik</i>, <i>Malek</i>, <i>Mallick</i>, <i>Malkha</i>, <i>Malka</i>, <i>Malkai</i> and the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew">Hebrew</a> form <i>Melek</i>. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Moloch" title="Moloch">Moloch</a></i> has traditionally been interpreted as the epithet of a god, known as "the king" like <a href="/wiki/Baal" title="Baal">Baal</a> was an epithet "the master" and <a href="/wiki/Adon" title="Adon">Adon</a> an epithet "the lord", but in the case of Moloch purposely mispronounced as <i>Moleḵ</i> instead of <i>Meleḵ</i> using the vowels of Hebrew <i>bosheth</i> "shame".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political">Political</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Malik" title="Special:EditPage/Malik">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2013</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Primarily a <i>malik</i> is the ruling monarch of a <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">kingdom</a>, called <i>mamlaka</i>; that term is however also used in a broader sense, like realm, for rulers with another, generally lower titles, as in <a href="/wiki/Sahib" title="Sahib">Sahib al-Mamlaka</a>. Malik is also used for tribal leaders, e.g. among the <a href="/wiki/Pashtuns" title="Pashtuns">Pashtuns</a>. </p><p>Some <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> kingdoms are currently ruled by a Malik: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bahrain" title="Bahrain">Bahrain</a>, formerly under a <i><a href="/wiki/Hakim_(title)" title="Hakim (title)">hakim</a></i>, or "ruler", until 16 August 1971, then under an <i><a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">emir</a></i>, or "prince", and since 14 February 2002 under a <i>malik</i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a>, formerly the <a href="/wiki/Emirate" title="Emirate">Emirate</a> of <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan" title="Emirate of Transjordan">Transjordan</a>;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>, formerly a <a href="/wiki/Sultanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultanate">Sultanate</a>;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>. On 10 June 1916, the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Sharif" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Sharif">Grand Sharif</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a> assumed the title of King of the <a href="/wiki/Hejaz" title="Hejaz">Hejaz</a>; from 29 October 1916 "King of the Arabs and <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Faithful" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Faithful">Commander of the Faithful</a>"; from 6 November 1916 recognized by the allied powers only as King of the <a href="/wiki/Hejaz" title="Hejaz">Hejaz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Faithful" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Faithful">Commander of the Faithful</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grand_Sharif" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Sharif">Grand Sharif</a> and <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">emir</a> of Mecca; also assumed the title of <a href="/wiki/Caliph" class="mw-redirect" title="Caliph">Caliph</a> on 11 March 1924; from 3 October 1924: King of the Hejaz and Grand Sharif of Mecca. In 1925 <a href="/wiki/Nejd" class="mw-redirect" title="Nejd">Nejd</a> conquered Hijaz, so the Sultan of Nejd added the title "King of Hijaz". On 22 September 1932 Nejd and Hejaz were renamed as Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, full style: <i>Malik al-Mamlaka al-'Arabiyya as-Sa'udiyya</i> ("King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"); from 1986 prefixed to the name: <i><a href="/wiki/Khadim_al-Haramayn_ash-Sharifayn" class="mw-redirect" title="Khadim al-Haramayn ash-Sharifayn">Khadim al-Haramayn ash-Sharifayn</a></i> ("Servant (i.e. <a href="/wiki/Protector_(title)" title="Protector (title)">Protector</a>) of the Two Exalted Holy Places [Mecca and Medina]").</li></ul> <p>Other historic realms under a Malik include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> – the former <a href="/wiki/Khedivate_of_Egypt" title="Khedivate of Egypt">khedivate</a> and subsequently <a href="/wiki/Sultanate_of_Egypt" title="Sultanate of Egypt">independent sultanate</a> was ruled by <i>Malik Misr</i> ("<a href="/wiki/King_of_Egypt" title="King of Egypt">King of Egypt</a>") from 1922 to 1951; and <i>Malik Misr wa's Sudan</i> ("<a href="/wiki/King_of_Egypt_and_the_Sudan" title="King of Egypt and the Sudan">King of Egypt and the Sudan</a>") from 16 October 1951 until the proclamation of the republic on 18 June 1953</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> – between 23 August 1921 and 2 May 1958, Iraq was ruled by a Hashemite <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_Kings_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kings of Iraq">Malik al-'Iraq</a></i> ("King of Iraq"). Among the indigenous <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdish Jews">Kurdish Jews</a>, the term has been (and still is) used since pre-Arab and pre-Islamic times for the title of tribal chief, for example <a href="/wiki/Malik_Khoshaba" title="Malik Khoshaba">Malik Khoshaba</a> of the Bit-<a href="/wiki/Tyareh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tyareh">Tyareh</a> tribe.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a> – <a href="/wiki/Idris_I_of_Libya" class="mw-redirect" title="Idris I of Libya">Idris I</a> (1890–1983) (Sayyid Muhammad Idris <a href="/wiki/As-Sanusi" class="mw-redirect" title="As-Sanusi">as-Sanusi</a>, heir of a Muslim sect's dynasty) reigned as <i>Malik al-Mamlaka al-Libiyya al-Muttahida</i> ("King of the United Libyan Kingdom") from 24 December 1951 through 25 April 1963 and <i>Malik al-Mamlaka al-Libiyya</i> ("King of the Libyan Kingdom") until 1 September 1969.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a> – between 1965 and 1968, <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Fareed_Didi" title="Muhammad Fareed Didi">Muhammad Fareed Didi</a> ruled the Maldives as <i>Jala'ala ul-Malik</i> ("King" and the style of "His Majesty"); previous rulers were styled Sultan of Land and Sea and Lord of the twelve-thousand islands, holding both the Arabic title of Sultan and the more ancient <a href="/wiki/Dhivehi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhivehi language">Divehi</a> title of Maha Radun or Ras Kilege.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a> – the <a href="/wiki/Nabhani_dynasty" title="Nabhani dynasty">Nabhani dynasty</a> ruled Oman between 1154 and 1470; later it was an <a href="/wiki/Imamate" title="Imamate">imamate</a> / Sultanate.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a> was formerly ruled by maliks (1 year).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a> – between 1918 and 27 September 1962, and in dissidence to March 1970, the imamate of Yemen was ruled by <i><a href="/wiki/Imams_of_Yemen" title="Imams of Yemen">Imam al-Muslimin, Amir al-Mu'minin, Malik al-Mamlaka al-Mutawakkiliyya al-Yamaniyya</a></i> ("Imam of the Muslims, <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Faithful" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Faithful">Commander of the Faithful</a>, King of the Mutawakkilite Yemeni Kingdom").</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> rulers bestowed the title of <i>Malik</i> on loyal tribal leaders and chieftains in <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Mughal_Empire" title="Mughal Empire">Mughal</a> and colonial <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, the princely state of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zainabad,_Vanod&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zainabad, Vanod (page does not exist)">Zainabad, Vanod</a> was ruled by a <b>Malek Shri</b> (<a href="/wiki/Sri" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri">Shri</a> is an emphatical <a href="/wiki/Honorific" title="Honorific">honorific</a>).</li></ul> <p><b>Malik</b> has also been used in languages which adopted Arabic <a href="/wiki/Loanword" title="Loanword">loanwords</a> (mainly, not exclusively, in Muslim cultures), for various <a href="/wiki/Prince" title="Prince">princely</a> or lower ranks and functions. </p> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, the title of Melik was bestowed upon princes who ruled various <a href="/wiki/Principality" title="Principality">principalities</a>, often referred to as Melikdoms.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>, among the numerous Grandees, often related to Armenia: <ul><li>In the fourth class, (<i><a href="/wiki/Tavadi" title="Tavadi">Sul-didibuli-tavadi</a></i>) of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kartli_(1484%E2%80%931762)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Kartli (1484–1762)">Kingdom of Kartli</a>, commanders of banners (<i><a href="/wiki/Sadrosho" title="Sadrosho">sadrosho</a></i>), sixth and last in that class, the Malik of <a href="/wiki/Somkhiti" title="Somkhiti">Somkhiti</a> (Somkhiti is the name of Armenia in Georgian).</li> <li>In the sixth class, Grandees of the second class (<i><a href="/wiki/Mtavari" title="Mtavari">mtavari</a></i>) of the Kingdom of Kartli, ranking first of the second subclass, Grandees under the Prince of <a href="/wiki/Baratashvili" title="Baratashvili">Sabaratiano</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Loris-Melikov" class="mw-redirect" title="Loris-Melikov">Malik of Lori</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lori_Province" title="Lori Province">Lori</a> – a region in Armenia), head of the house of <a href="/wiki/Melikishvili" class="mw-redirect" title="Melikishvili">Melikishvili</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <p>The word Malik is sometimes used in Arabic to render roughly equivalent titles of foreign rulers, for instance the chronicler <a href="/wiki/Baha_al-Din_Ibn_Shaddad" class="mw-redirect" title="Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad">Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad</a> refers to King <a href="/wiki/Richard_I_of_England" title="Richard I of England">Richard I of England</a> as <i>Malik al-Inkitar</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious">Religious</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Religious"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Malik" title="Special:EditPage/Malik">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2013</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>The sacrament of <a href="/wiki/Holy_Leaven" title="Holy Leaven">Holy Leaven</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East">Assyrian Church of the East</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>It is also one of the <a href="/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam" title="Names of God in Islam">Names of God in Islam</a>, and is then <i>al-Malik</i> (الملك) or <i>The King, Lord of the Worlds</i> in the absolute sense (denoted by the definite article), meaning the <a href="/wiki/King_of_Kings_in_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Kings in Islam">King of Kings</a>, above all earthly rulers. <ul><li>Hence, Abdelmelik ("servant of [Allah] the King") is an Arabic male name.</li></ul></li> <li>In Biblical Hebrew, <a href="/wiki/Moloch" title="Moloch">Moloch</a> is either the name of a god or a particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melqart" title="Melqart">Melqart</a> ("king of the city") was a Phoenician and Punic god.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Melkite" title="Melkite">Melkites</a> (from Syriac <i>malkāyâ</i>, ܡܠܟܝܐ, "imperial") are the members of several Christian churches of the Middle East, originally those who sided with the Byzantine emperor.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compound_and_derived_titles">Compound and derived titles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Compound and derived titles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Malik" title="Special:EditPage/Malik">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2013</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><i>Malika</i> is the female derivation, a term of Arabic origin used in Persia as the title for a <a href="/wiki/Queen_consort" title="Queen consort">Queen consort</a>. Frequently also used as part of a lady's name, e.g. <i>Malika-i-Jahan</i> 'Queen of the World'.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sahib" title="Sahib">Sahib</a> us-Sumuw al-Malik</i> (female Sahibat us-Sumuw al-Malik) is an Arabic title for His/Her <a href="/wiki/Royal_Highness" title="Royal Highness">Royal Highness</a>, notably for Princes in the dynasty of the Malik of Egypt.</li></ul> <p>The following components are frequently part of titles, notably in Persian (also used elsewhere, e.g. in India's Moghol tradition): </p> <ul><li><b>- ul-Mulk</b> (or <b>ul-Molk</b>): – of the kingdom; e.g. Malik Usman Khan, who served the <a href="/wiki/Sultan" title="Sultan">Sultan</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a> as Governor of <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>, received the title of <i>Zubdat ul-Mulk</i> 'best of the kingdom' as a hereditary distinction, which was retained as part of the style of his heirs, the ruling <a href="/wiki/Diwan_(title)" class="mw-redirect" title="Diwan (title)">Diwans</a> (only since 1910 promoted to <a href="/wiki/Nawab" title="Nawab">Nawab</a>) of <a href="/wiki/Palanpur" title="Palanpur">Palanpur</a>.</li> <li><b>- ul-Mamaluk</b> (plural of <i>ul-mulk</i>): – of the kingdoms.</li></ul> <p>In the great Indian Muslim <a href="/wiki/Salute_state" title="Salute state">salute state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad_State" title="Hyderabad State">Hyderabad</a>, a first rank- vassal of the Mughal <a href="/wiki/Padshah" class="mw-redirect" title="Padshah">padshah</a> (emperor) imitating his lofty Persian court protocol, the word <b>Molk</b> became on itself one of the titles used for ennobled Muslim retainers of the ruling <a href="/wiki/Nizam_of_Hyderabad" title="Nizam of Hyderabad">Nizam</a>'s court, in fact the third in rank, only below <a href="/wiki/Jah" title="Jah">Jah</a> (the highest) and <a href="/wiki/Umara" class="mw-redirect" title="Umara">Umara</a>, but above <a href="/wiki/Al-Dawla" title="Al-Dawla">Daula</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khan_(title)" title="Khan (title)">Jang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nawab" title="Nawab">Nawab</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khan_(title)" title="Khan (title)">Khan Bahadur</a> and <a href="/wiki/Khan_(title)" title="Khan (title)">Khan</a>; for the Nizam's Hindu retainers different titles were used, the equivalent of Molk being Vant. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage_in_South_Asia">Usage in South Asia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Usage in South Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Malik" title="Special:EditPage/Malik">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Kakazai" title="Kakazai">Kakazai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malik_(Punjab)" class="mw-redirect" title="Malik (Punjab)">Malik (Punjab)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malik_(Bihar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Malik (Bihar)">Malik (Bihar)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Malik_(Jat)" class="mw-redirect" title="Malik (Jat)">Malik (Jat)</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pashtun_usage">Pashtun usage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Pashtun usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Arabic term came to be adopted as a term for "<a href="/wiki/Tribal_chieftain" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribal chieftain">tribal chieftain</a>" in the <a href="/wiki/Tribe" title="Tribe">tribal</a> areas of northwestern <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>. In tribal Pashtun society in Pakistan, the Maliks serve as <i>de facto</i> arbiters in local conflicts, interlocutors in state policy-making, tax-collectors, heads of village and town councils and delegates to provincial and national <i>jirgas</i> and Parliament. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Punjabi_usage">Punjabi usage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Punjabi usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Punjab_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjab region">Punjab</a>, "Malik", literally meaning "King" or "<a href="/wiki/Lord" title="Lord">Lord</a>" is a title used by some well-reputed specific Punjabi aristocrat bloodlines with special lineage, more formally known as <a href="/wiki/Zamindar" title="Zamindar">Zamindars</a>. The Actual clans to hold and originate this esteemed title are the "<a href="/wiki/Awan_(tribe)" title="Awan (tribe)">Awan</a>" Tribe, They are Martial Warrior Tribes which are also associated with different aspects throughout different generations and periods of history, It is believed that they originated as a clan of warriors who later on settled as wealthy landlords. Malik Awans in Punjabi Ethnology are considered to be Honourable Warriors. </p><p>The Muslim Malik community is settled all over Pakistan, and the Sikh Malik are settled in India. The Malik are also known as the Gathwala. The Gathwala are now designating themselves as Maliks. Due to the popularity of the Malik title, many Punjabi sub-castes, such as Gujarati⠀Punjabis and many others, have adopted title to gain acceptance in the <a href="/wiki/Punjab" title="Punjab">Punjabi</a> caste system. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_usage">General usage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: General usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Malik or Malek is a common element in first and family names, usually without any aristocratic meaning. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Given_name">Given name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Given name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint"><div 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href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#Y">Y</a></li> <li><a href="#Z">Z</a> </li></ul> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> </div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A">A</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Ambar" title="Malik Ambar">Malik Ambar</a>, Ethiopian military leader for the <a href="/wiki/Ahmadnagar_Sultanate" title="Ahmadnagar Sultanate">Ahmadnagar Sultanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Al_Nasir" title="Malik Al Nasir">Malik Al Nasir</a>, British author and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Shakeel_Awan" title="Malik Shakeel Awan">Malik Shakeel Awan</a>, Pakistani politician</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="B">B</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Basit" class="mw-redirect" title="Malik Basit">Malik Basit</a> or Malik B (1972–2020), American rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Beasley" title="Malik Beasley">Malik Beasley</a> (born 1996), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Bendjelloul" title="Malik Bendjelloul">Malik Bendjelloul</a>, Swedish Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and child actor</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="C">C</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Carney" title="Malik Carney">Malik Carney</a> (born 1995), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Clements" title="Malik Clements">Malik Clements</a> (born 1996), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Cunningham" title="Malik Cunningham">Malik Cunningham</a> (born 1998), American football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="D">D</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Davis" title="Malik Davis">Malik Davis</a> (born 1998), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Dixon" title="Malik Dixon">Malik Dixon</a> (born 1975), American basketball player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="E">E</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Ellison" title="Malik Ellison">Malik Ellison</a> (born 1996), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Evans" title="Malik Evans">Malik Evans</a> (born 1980), American politician</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="F">F</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Fitts" title="Malik Fitts">Malik Fitts</a> (born 1997), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Flowers" title="Malik Flowers">Malik Flowers</a> (born 1999), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Frikah" title="Malik Frikah">Malik Frikah</a> (born 2006 or 2007), French actor and breakdancer</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="G">G</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Gabdullin" title="Malik Gabdullin">Malik Gabdullin</a>, Kazakh writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Gaines" title="Malik Gaines">Malik Gaines</a> (born 1973), American artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Gaisin" title="Malik Gaisin">Malik Gaisin</a> (born 1959), Russian businessman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Golden" title="Malik Golden">Malik Golden</a> (born 1993), American football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="H">H</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Hairston" title="Malik Hairston">Malik Hairston</a> (born 1987), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Hamm" title="Malik Hamm">Malik Hamm</a> (born 2000), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Harris" title="Malik Harris">Malik Harris</a> (born 1997), German singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Harrison" title="Malik Harrison">Malik Harrison</a> (born 1998), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Heath" title="Malik Heath">Malik Heath</a> (born 2000), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Henry" title="Malik Henry">Malik Henry</a> (born 1997), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Herring" title="Malik Herring">Malik Herring</a> (born 1997), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Hooker" title="Malik Hooker">Malik Hooker</a> (born 1996), American football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="J">J</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Jackson_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Malik Jackson (disambiguation)">Malik Jackson (disambiguation)</a>, multiple people</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Jefferson" title="Malik Jefferson">Malik Jefferson</a> (born 1996), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Johnson_(basketball)" title="Malik Johnson (basketball)">Malik Johnson (basketball)</a> (born 1997), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Johnson_(soccer)" title="Malik Johnson (soccer)">Malik Johnson (soccer)</a> (born 1998), Canadian soccer player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="K">K</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Ata_Muhammad_Khan" title="Malik Ata Muhammad Khan">Malik Ata Muhammad Khan</a>, Chieftain of Malik-Awan Clan, A Renowned feudal lords and states man</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nawab_Malik_Amir_Mohammad_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nawab Malik Amir Mohammad Khan">Nawab Malik Amir Mohammad Khan</a>, Nawab of Kalabagh, Patriarch of Malik-Awan Tribe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feroz_Khan_Noon" title="Feroz Khan Noon">Malik Feroz Khan Noon</a>, former Prime Minister of Pakistan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Khizar_Hayat_Tiwana" class="mw-redirect" title="Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana">Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana</a>, Punjab Unionist party Premier of the Punjab</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Khoshaba" title="Malik Khoshaba">Malik Khoshaba</a>, Assyrian tribal leader of the Tyareh tribe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Knowles" title="Malik Knowles">Malik Knowles</a> (born 2000), American football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="M">M</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_McDowell" title="Malik McDowell">Malik McDowell</a> (born 1996), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Monk" title="Malik Monk">Malik Monk</a> (born 1998), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Mothersille" title="Malik Mothersille">Malik Mothersille</a> (born 2003), English footballer</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="N">N</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Nabers" title="Malik Nabers">Malik Nabers</a> (born 2003), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Newman" title="Malik Newman">Malik Newman</a> (born 1997), American basketball player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="O">O</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Obama" title="Malik Obama">Malik Obama</a> (born 1958), Kenyan-American businessman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Osborne" title="Malik Osborne">Malik Osborne</a> (born 1998), American basketball player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="P">P</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Peiris" title="Malik Peiris">Malik Peiris</a>, Sri Lankan scientist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Pinto" title="Malik Pinto">Malik Pinto</a> (born 2002), American soccer player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Pope" title="Malik Pope">Malik Pope</a> (born 1996), American basketball player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="R">R</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Rahim" title="Malik Rahim">Malik Rahim</a> (born 1948), American activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Reaves" title="Malik Reaves">Malik Reaves</a> (born 1995), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Reed" title="Malik Reed">Malik Reed</a> (born 1996), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Reneau" title="Malik Reneau">Malik Reneau</a> (born 2003), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Riaz" title="Malik Riaz">Malik Riaz</a>, Pakistani businessman and a real estate investor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Rose" title="Malik Rose">Malik Rose</a> (born 1974), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Rosier" title="Malik Rosier">Malik Rosier</a> (born 1995), American football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S">S</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Scott" title="Malik Scott">Malik Scott</a> (born 1980), American boxer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Sealy" title="Malik Sealy">Malik Sealy</a> (1970–2000), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Sekou" title="Malik Sekou">Malik Sekou</a> (born 1964), American lawyer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Shabazz" class="mw-redirect" title="Malik Shabazz">Malik Shabazz</a> (1925–1965), also known as Malcolm X, an American Muslim leader and human rights activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Stanley" title="Malik Stanley">Malik Stanley</a> (born 1996), American football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="T">T</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Taylor" title="Malik Taylor">Malik Taylor</a> (born 1995), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Tchokount%C3%A9" title="Malik Tchokounté">Malik Tchokounté</a> (born 1988), French footballer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Tillman" title="Malik Tillman">Malik Tillman</a> (born 2002), American soccer player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Turner" title="Malik Turner">Malik Turner</a>, American rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Turner_(American_football)" title="Malik Turner (American football)">Malik Turner (American football)</a> (born 1996), American football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="W">W</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Washington" title="Malik Washington">Malik Washington</a> (born 2001), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Williams" title="Malik Williams">Malik Williams</a> (born 1998), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Willis" title="Malik Willis">Malik Willis</a> (born 1999), American football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Y">Y</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Y"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Yoba" title="Malik Yoba">Malik Yoba</a> (born 1967), American actor and occasional singer</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Z">Z</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malik_Zaire" title="Malik Zaire">Malik Zaire</a> (born 1995), American football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surname">Surname</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Surname"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Malik_(physician)" title="Abdul Malik (physician)">Abdul Malik</a>, Brigadier (rtd.), first Pakistani cardiologist, founder of <a href="/wiki/National_Heart_Foundation_(Bangladesh)" title="National Heart Foundation (Bangladesh)">National Heart Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anu_Malik" title="Anu Malik">Anu Malik</a>, Indian singer and music director</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armaan_Malik" title="Armaan Malik">Armaan Malik</a>, Indian singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Art_Malik" title="Art Malik">Art Malik</a>, Pakistan-born British actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humaima_Malik" class="mw-redirect" title="Humaima Malik">Humaima Malik</a>, Pakistan-born Pakistani actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feroze_Malik" class="mw-redirect" title="Feroze Malik">Feroze Malik</a>, Pakistan-born Pakistani actor, originally known as Feroze Khan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenan_Malik" title="Kenan Malik">Kenan Malik</a> (born 1960), Indian-born British science writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikunj_Malik" title="Nikunj Malik">Nikunj Malik</a>, Indian actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rami_Malek" title="Rami Malek">Rami Malek</a>, American actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoaib_Malik" title="Shoaib Malik">Shoaib Malik</a>, Pakistani cricket player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Malik" title="Steve Malik">Steve Malik</a> (born c. 1965), American businessman and sports team owner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rizwan_Farook_and_Tashfeen_Malik" title="Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik">Tashfeen Malik</a>, Pakistani American terrorist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terrence_Malick" title="Terrence Malick">Terrence Malick</a> (born 1943), Assyrian-American film director, screenwriter, producer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veena_Malik" title="Veena Malik">Veena Malik</a>, Pakistani actress, TV host and model</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wendie_Malick" title="Wendie Malick">Wendie Malick</a>, American actress, former model</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakov_Malik" title="Yakov Malik">Yakov Malik</a>, Soviet diplomat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasin_Malik" title="Yasin Malik">Yasin Malik</a>, Kashmiri politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zayn_Malik" title="Zayn Malik">Zayn Malik</a> (born 1993), English singer</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malik&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 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Arab traders' term for the region, Jazirat al-Muluk ('the island of many kings')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melech_(name)" title="Melech (name)">Melech (name)</a>, a given name of Hebrew origin that means 'king'.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minicoy" title="Minicoy">Minicoy</a>, an island in India that was the ancient capital of <a href="/wiki/Lakshadweepa" class="mw-redirect" title="Lakshadweepa">Lakshadweepa</a>, whose local name (Maliku) is thought to have been derived from the Arab traders' term for it, Jazirat al-Maliku ('the island of the king').<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mleccha" title="Mleccha">Mleccha</a>, a Sanskrit term referring to those of an incomprehensible speech, foreign or barbarous invaders as contra-distinguished from Aryan Vedic tribes</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9053271/Moloch">"Molech"</a>. <i>Encyclopædia Britannica Encyclopedia</i>. 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 March</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Molech&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica+Encyclopedia&rft.date=2008&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Feb%2Farticle-9053271%2FMoloch&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMalik" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBowker2003" class="citation book cs1">Bowker, John (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192800947.001.0001/acref-9780192800947-e-4537">"Malka or Malca"</a>. <i>The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780191727221" title="Special:BookSources/9780191727221"><bdi>9780191727221</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 July</span> 2016</span> – via Oxford Reference.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Malka+or+Malca&rft.btitle=The+Concise+Oxford+Dictionary+of+World+Religions&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=9780191727221&rft.aulast=Bowker&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfordreference.com%2Fview%2F10.1093%2Facref%2F9780192800947.001.0001%2Facref-9780192800947-e-4537&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMalik" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lutfy, Mohamed Ibrahim. 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