In Popular Culture
- In the 1966 movie Khartoum, the Mahdi was played by Laurence Olivier.
- In the British sitcom, Dad's Army, Lance Corporal Jones often talks about his encounters with the Mahdi.
- A 2007 episode of the crime drama Waking the Dead featured an attempt to locate the Mahdi's missing skull, in order to defuse tensions due to the hunger strike of a Sudanese Mahdist politician. The episode also made reference to the 1966 film in particular reference to Olivier's portrayal of the Mahdi.
- In Desert and Wilderness, a young adult novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1912)
- In the 1999 film Topsy-Turvy, characters discuss the news of the Mahdi's destruction of the British garrison at Khartoum.
- Mahdi-Trilogie (Mahdi Trilogy, 1896) by Karl May, where Kara Ben Nemsi meets Muhammad Ahmad.
- The Four Feathers, a 2002 film, depicted a British military unit sent to fight the Madhi
- The 2008 novel After Omdurman by John Ferry deals with the reconquest of the Sudan and the destruction of the army of the Mahdi's successor, the Khalifa.
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