Mohammed Abdullah (Sayyid)

Somali anti-colonial leader (1856–1920)

Sayyid Moḥammad Abdallah Hassan (Somali: Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan; Arabic: امحمد بن عبد الله حسن; 7 April 1856 – 21 December 1920) was a Somali scholar, poet, military leader and religious, cultural and political figure who founded and headed the Taleh-based Dervish movement, which led a holy war against British, Italian and Ethiopian colonial intrusions in the Somali Peninsula. He was pejoratively known by the British Empire as the Mad Mullah. In 1917, the Ottoman Empire referred to him as the "Emir of the Somali People".

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