Mozenrath's name was an anagram of most of the last names of writers Bill Motz and Bob Roth. The exact anagram was Motzenroth, but they adjusted it after creating it since they felt it resembled a Hebrew name.
Mozenrath's zombie slaves are mamluks. Though pronounced the way it is spelled, the word is Arabic for Central Asian slave-soldiers who were usually forced to fight in Egypt, coming etymologically from the Arabic word for "owned".