WRITER

Mohammed Abdullah Hassan

1856 - 1920

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Muḥammad Ibn Abdallāh Ibn Hassan (Arabic: محمد بن عبدالله حسن: Somali: Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan; Osmanya: 𐒉𐒖𐒕𐒕𐒘𐒆 𐒑𐒙𐒔𐒖𐒑𐒑𐒗𐒆 𐒛𐒁𐒆𐒚𐒐𐒐𐒖𐒔 H𐒖𐒈𐒈𐒖𐒒: 7 April 1856 – 21 December 1920) was a Somali Scholar, Poet, Religious, Political, Cultural and Military leader who founded and headed the Dervish movement, which led a holy war against British, Italian and Ethiopian colonial intrusions in the Somali Peninsula. He was famously known by the British Empire as the "Mad Mullah". In 1917, the Ottoman Empire referred him as the "Emir of the Somali People". Due to his successful completion of the Hajj to Mecca, his assertion of being the descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his complete memorization of the Quran, his name is preluded with honorifics such as Hajji, Hafiz, Emir, Sheikh, Mullah or Sayyid. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mohammed Abdullah Hassan is the 873rd most popular writer (up from 2,387th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Somalia (up from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Somali Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 873 out of 7,302. Before him are Arthur Adamov, Periander, Douglas Adams, Georg Brandes, Thietmar of Merseburg, and Thomas Harris. After him are Guido Cavalcanti, Ibn al-Muqaffa', Miep Gies, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Jerzy Kosiński, and Laura de Noves.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 25. Before him are Svetozar Boroević, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, L. Frank Baum, Frank B. Kellogg, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, and Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli. After him are Andrey Markov, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, H. Rider Haggard, John Singer Sargent, Carl David Tolmé Runge, and Jean Moréas. Among people deceased in 1920, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 17. Before him are Anders Zorn, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Rosalia Lombardo, Svetozar Boroević, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. After him are Inessa Armand, Essad Pasha Toptani, John Reed, Jeanne Hébuterne, Benito Pérez Galdós, and Eleanor H. Porter.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 5 out of 58. Before him are Siad Barre (1919), Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955), Aden Adde (1908), and Abdirashid Shermarke (1919). After him are Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (1962), Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (1936), Waris Dirie (1965), Mohamed Farrah Aidid (1934), Iman (1955), Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916), and Mohamed Osman Jawari (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Somalia

Among writers born in Somalia, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 1. After him are Waris Dirie (1965), Nuruddin Farah (1945), and Nadifa Mohamed (1981).

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