MANĪḤAH (منيحة). A legal term for a camel lent, with permission to use its milk, its hair, and its young, but on condition of returning the camel itself. Such an animal cannot be sacrificed. (Mishkāt, book iv. ch. 50.)
MANLĀ (منلا). A learned man. A Muḥammadan priest. The Egyptian form of Maulavī or Mulla.
MAN-LĀ-YASTAḤẒIRAHU ʾL-FAQĪH (من لا يستحضره الفقيه). A book of Shīʿah traditions compiled by Saiyid Rāzī, A.H. 406.
MANNA. Arabic mann (من); Heb. מָן mān; Greek μάννα. The giving of manna to the children of Israel is mentioned three times in the Qurʾān.
[Sūrah ii. 54]: “And we overshadowed them with the cloud, and sent down manna and the quails.”
[Sūrah xx. 82]: “We caused the manna and the quails to descend upon you.”
[Sūrah vii. 160]: “We caused clouds to overshadow them, and sent down upon them the manna and the quails.”
ʿAbdu ʾl-ʿAzīz, in his commentary, says it was like white sugar.
MANSLAUGHTER. [[MURDER].]
MANUMISSION. Arabic ʿItq (عتق). [[SLAVERY].]