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In modern-day Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad is sometimes considered to be a precursor of Sudanese nationalism. The Umma party claim to be his political descendants. [20] Their former leader, Imam Sadiq al-Mahdi, was the great-great-grandson of Muhammad Ahmad, [21] and also the imam of the Ansār, the religious order that pledges allegiance to Muhammad ...
The Mahdī united his Sufi and non-Sufi followers by naming them anṣār, after the earliest followers of the Prophet Muhammad. The Mahdist state was established after four years of fighting, ending in the 1885 Siege of Khartoum where the British governor-general of Sudan, General Gordon, was killed and decapitated. [ 6 ]
Mohammad Taha al-Ahmad (Arabic: محمد طه الأحمد; born 1982) is the current Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform in the Syrian Transitional Government. [1] He had served as Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation in the Syrian Salvation Government [ 2 ] until December 2024.
A Mahdist Dervish from Sudan (1899) Mahdist in the Khalifa's House, Omdurman, wearing the distinctive patched uniform worn by the followers of the Mahdī. To distinguish his followers from adherents of other Sufi orders, Muhammed Ahmad forbade the use of the word dervish (Arabic darwīsh, pl. darawīsh) to describe his followers, replacing it with the title Anṣār, the term Muhammad used for ...
The First Sudanese Sovereignty Council (not including Ahmad Muhammad Salih), from right to left: Yassin, al-Dardiri Muhammad Uthman, Abd al-Fattah Muhammad al-Maghribi, and Siricio Iro Wani Sudan gained its independence on 1 January 1956 from the Anglo-Egyptian condominium rule , with a presidential system of government, a five-member ...
Muhammad Ahmad (1844–1885), otherwise known as the Mahdi, was a religious figure in Sudan. Mohamed or Muhammad Ahmed, or any variant thereof, may also refer to: Mohamed Ahmed (Comorian politician) (1917–1984), Comorian politician; Muhammad Ahmad (Nigerian politician) (died 2021), Nigerian politician
Ahmad ibn al-Mu'tasim, was an Abbasid prince and son of Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tasim. He was also patron of Science, philosophy and Art. Ahmad ibn Muhammad, (died 866) better known as Al-Musta'in was the twelfth Abbasid caliph (r. 862–866). Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the Afghan Durrani Empire; Ahmad Khan Yousafzai, founder of Pakhtunkhwa
Ahmad Muhammad Shakir (Arabic: أحمد محمد شاكر, romanized: Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir) (January 29, 1892, Cairo – June 14, 1958) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar of hadith. He is the son of Muḥammad Shākir ibn Aḥmad, an Islamic scholar of Al-Azhar University [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and elder brother of Mahmud Muhammad Shakir , [ 4 ] a ...