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Mohammed Abdullah Hassan
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan was a Somali religious leader of the Salihiyya Sufi order who founded the Dervish movement in the 1890s. For two decades his Dervish State fought British, Italian and Ethiopian forces in the Somali lands from forts such as Taleh. A British campaign using aircraft destroyed the state in 1920, and he died later that year.
Mentioned in 3 state histories
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/mohammed-abdullah-hassan
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