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, and military leader who founded and headed the Dervish movement, which led a holy war against British, Italian and Ethiopian 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan has received more than 669,703 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mohammed Abdullah Hassan is the 2,387th most popular writer (up from 3,048th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Somalia (up from 13th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Somali Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 2,387 out of 7,302. Before him are Agathangelos, Taliesin, Ana María Matute, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, and Nikolay Kostomarov. After him are Émile Augier, André Frossard, Charles Berlitz, Akaki Tsereteli, Laura Esquivel, and S. N. Goenka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 59. Before him are Karl Krumbacher, J.-H. Rosny aîné, Dimitar Blagoev, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, and Louise Catherine Breslau. After him are José Batlle y Ordóñez, Karl Lamprecht, Princess Isabella of Croÿ, Ernst Brenner, Alexander Izvolsky, and Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt. Among people deceased in 1920, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 47. Before him are Alexius Meinong, Amedee Reyburn, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, Sarada Devi, Paul Adam, and Luís of Orléans-Braganza. After him are Levi P. Morton, Maria Bochkareva, Nikolai Korotkov, John Wesley Hyatt, Afonso, Duke of Porto, and Grigory Potanin.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 10 out of 58. Before him are Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955), Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916), Iman (1955), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Muse Bihi Abdi (1948), and Aden Adde (1908). After him are Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Abdirashid Shermarke (1919), Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939), Nuruddin Farah (1945), Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969), and Abdulqawi Yusuf (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Somalia

Among writers born in Somalia, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ranks 2. Before him are Waris Dirie (1965). After him are Nuruddin Farah (1945), and Nadifa Mohamed (1981).

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