Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallah
1844–1885
Religious leader in the Sudan, self-proclaimed as the Mahdi (1844-1885)
politician · ulema · resistance fighter
Born in Dongola
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallah:
- Karl Marx (1818–1883)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)