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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 ...
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.
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 ]
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 ...
Aziz Mahmud Hudayi (1541–1628), (b.Şereflikoçhisar, d. Üsküdar), is amongst the most famous Sufi Muslim saints of the Ottoman Empire.A mystic, poet, composer, author, statesman and Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar, [1] he was the third and last husband of Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan, granddaughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
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 ...
Muhammad Ahmad Hussein (Arabic: محمد أحمد حسين; born 1966) is the incumbent Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He was appointed in July 2006 by Mahmoud Abbas , the President of the Palestinian National Authority .
Imam Qurtubi is Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abu Bakr ibn Farah, Abu Abdullah al-Ansari al-Qurtubi, of Cordova (in present day Spain). A Maliki scholar and hadith specialist, he was one of the greatest Imams of Koranic exegesis, an ascetic who divided his days between worship and writing.