# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahdi-elmandjra
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:00:27.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mahdi-elmandjra"
name: "Mahdi Elmandjra"
slug: "mahdi-elmandjra"
description: "Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies (Futuribles). He predicted a number of events, the most important of which was the clash of civilisations in his book \"The first civilisation war\" in 1992, that is, before Samuel Huntington, who used the same concept in his book \"The clash of civilisations\" issued in 1996. Mahdi Elmandjra also predicted the occurrence of the \"Arab Spring\", which he referred to in his writings under the name of \"Intifada\"."
tagline: "Moroccan academic (1933-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elmandjra.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-03-13"
deathDate: "2014-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.390897333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Mahdi Elmandjra"
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    title: "Mahdi Elmandjra"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump