# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/muhammad-ahmad-ibn-abdallah
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:35:16.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/muhammad-ahmad-ibn-abdallah"
name: "Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallah"
slug: "muhammad-ahmad-ibn-abdallah"
description: "Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Fahal was a Sudanese religious and political leader. In 1881, he claimed to be the Mahdi and led a war against Egyptian rule in Sudan, which culminated in a remarkable victory over them in the Siege of Khartoum. He created a vast Islamic state extending from the Red Sea to Central Africa and founded a movement that remained influential in Sudan a century later."
tagline: "Religious leader in the Sudan, self-proclaimed as the Mahdi (1844-1885)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Muhammad_Ahmad_al-Mahdi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1844-08-12"
deathDate: "1885-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.38353765323993
  historical:           23.01447866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Muhammad Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump