The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1486 page)

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Marabout
(Arab., mur
bi
). Name given (especially in N. Africa) to holy Muslims, or to their descendants. The acquisition of holiness may be by any of many different paths—i.e. there is no formal school, nor restricted process of beatification.
Mara
a
.
Death in Buddhism, not of the bodily aggregation, which is
cuti
, but of all phenomena as they rise into appearance and pass away.
Maranant’a
or M
l
nanda
.
A Serindian Buddhist missionary to Paekche (Korea). Maranant’a travelled from Eastern China to Paekche in 384, during the first year of the reign of King Ch’imnyu (384–5); this event is traditionally regarded as the official introduction of Buddhism to the kingdom of Paekche.
Maranatha
.
An Aramaic Christian formula in 1 Corinthians 16. 22, probably to be translated ‘O Lord, come!’ (cf. Revelations 22. 20). It may reflect the urgent expectation of the
parousia
in the earliest Church, or it may be an invocation to reinforce a threat.
Maranke, Johane
(founder of Christian movement in Africa):

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