• Malik ul-Shu'ara: 'King of the Poets'; i.e. poet laureate
  Poet Laureate
  A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
  
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• Malik ul-Tujjar: 'King of the Merchants', an office held by the head of the merchant community in each town or city.
• Maalik
  Maalik
  In Islamic belief, Maalik denotes an angel who guards the Hellfire, assisted by 19 zabaniya or guardians. In the Qur'an, sura 43, 77, Maalik tells the wicked who appeal to him that they must remain in Hell because "they abhorred the truth when the truth was brought to them." It is also noted that...
  
   the hell guardian (angel who guards the Hellfire)

South Asian communities

• Malik (Punjab)
  Malik (Punjab)
  Malik is a surname used by the Punjabi Khukhrain and Arora communities living in Punjab or Delhi in India. They generally belong to the Kshatriya clan...
  
  , a Hindu Khukhrain or Arora community
• Malik (Bihar), a social group found in the Indian state of Bihar
• Malik (Jat)
  Malik (Jat)
  Malik is a clan of Hindu Jatt, Muslim Jat and a few Sikh Jat, found primarily in Haryana, India, but also found in other Indian states as well as Pakistan. There are both Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh Jats...
  
  , a Jat
  Jat people
  The Jat people are a community of traditionally non-elite tillers and herders in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory,...
  
   clan found in the Indian state of Haryana
• Malik (Julaha)
  Malik (Julaha)
  The Malik or Malik Julaha are ethnic community found in the Punjab province of Pakistan. They are one of many communities found in South Asia associated with weaving.- History and origin :...
  
  , a Punjabi Muslim tribe.
• Malik (Gujarat), a Gujarati Muslim community.
• Malik (Kashmir), a Kashmiri kram or tribe.

Films

• Maalik (1972 film), Indian Hindi film starring Rajesh Khanna
  Rajesh Khanna
  Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....
  
   and Sharmila Tagore
  Sharmila Tagore
  Sharmila Tagore is an Indian film actress. She has won National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances.She has led the Indian Film Censor Board from October 2004 till March 2011...
  
  

Popular culture

• Malek the Paladin, a fictional character from the video game series Legacy of Kain
  Legacy of Kain
  Legacy of Kain is a series of action-adventure video games developed initially by Silicon Knights in association with Crystal Dynamics. After a legal battle, Crystal Dynamics continued the series without Silicon Knights and Eidos Interactive became the publisher...
  
  
• Malik, a 1975 album by Lafayette Afro Rock Band
  Lafayette Afro Rock Band
  Lafayette Afro Rock Band was a French funk rock band formed in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York in 1970. Though almost unknown in their native United States, they are now universally celebrated as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s and admired for their use of break beats.Upon their...
  
  
• Malik Wright, a character from The Game, a U.S. TV series
• Malik, a fictional character from the video game series Assassin's Creed
  Assassin's Creed
  Assassin's Creed is an award-winning historical third person, stealth action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The bulk of the game takes place during the Third Crusade, with the plot revolving around a sect known as the Secret Order of...
  
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• Faridah Malik, a fictional character from the video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

See also

• Malick (disambiguation)
• Malika (disambiguation)
• Mallik Island
  Mallik Island
  Mallik Island is one of the uninhabited Canadian arctic islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Hudson Strait between Baffin Island's Foxe Peninsula and Dorset Island. Mallik Island and Dorset Island are joined together by sand and boulders...
  
  (a place in the Mackenzie Delta in the Canadian Arctic)