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https://www.cairn.info/revue-presence-africaine-1976-3-page-60.htm&wt.src=pdf
== Early life and education ==
Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Majzoub was born in 1919 in [[al-Damar]], the capital of the [[River Nile (state)|River Nile state]] in North Sudan.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=رابطة أدباء الشام - أشعار المبدع الراحل محمد المهدي المجذوب |url=https://www.odabasham.net/%D9%81%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86/22567-%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B0%D9%88%D8%A8 |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=www.odabasham.net}}</ref> His father is the [[Sufism|Sufi]] [[sheikh]], known in Sudan as Muhammad al-Majzoub, who belongs to the [[Ja'alin tribe|Ja’aliyin tribe]] of the north-central Sudanese tribes. Like his peers, he was {{III|Khalwa (school)|lt=Khalwa|ar|خلوة (مدرسة)}} educated, where he learned reading, writing and the [[Quran|Qur'an]].<ref name=":2" />
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== Literary works ==
During this era, there emerged ephemeral yet vibrant publications such as al-Sudan, al-Nahda, and al-Fajr. Within the pages of al-Fajr, writers such as [[al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir]] and [[Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub]] made their initial debut. The members of the Fajr group possessed an understanding of Sudan's hybrid cultural heritage and the historical currents that contributed to its distinctiveness. They aimed to shape the linguistic symbols that would define a national identity. Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub articulated the concept of Sudanese literature "written in Arabic but infused with the idioms of our land, as this is what sets the literature of one nation apart from another." The Fajr group's rediscovery of the collective origins of identity and creativity found its earliest manifestation in the works of Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Majdhub. He became the first poet whose writings reflected a consciousness of belonging to both the "Black" and "Arab" traditions.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Kramer |first=Robert S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAs7lGNkVBkC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA284&dq=%22Muhammad+al-Mahdi+al-Majdhub%22+-wikipedia&hl=en |title=Historical Dictionary of the Sudan |last2=Lobban |first2=Richard Andrew |last3=Fluehr-Lobban |first3=Carolyn |date=2013 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-6180-0 |language=en}}</ref>
The critic Osama Taj Al-Sir believes that "[[Sudanicism]]" was clear in al-Majzoub's poetry, which appeared in his imagination, images and language, which his late son, the journalist Awad Al-Karim Al-Majzoub, who says about his father, "Perhaps what distinguishes the language of Majzoub is its mixing - sometimes - Between classical and dialectal Arabic to the point of using the language of ordinary speech and planting it in the fabric of his poem.<ref name=":2" /> Osama Taj Al-Sir, Professor of Literature at the [[University of Khartoum]] stated to Al-Jazeera Net. "Al-Majzoub conveyed the Sudanese life to poetry, and he is one of the first to mix between the eloquent and the common, the Sudanese project represents for him a stylistic technique".<ref name=":2" />
Al-Siddiq Omar Al-Siddiq, attist the Sudanicism was not the most prominent feature of Al-Majzoub, as critics enumerate many features, and the poetic image is one of the clearest among them. Al-Majzoub is creative in taking pictures and bold in drawing them, and this audacity is not limited to pictures only.<ref name=":2" />
One of the most important features of Al-Majzoub's poetry is his interest in the simple man in the street. In the poor believes Osama Taj Al-Sir believes that Al-Majzoub: "moved poetry - in a highly poetic and pictorial language - from the centrality of life to its periphery (linguistic, social, and political). He wrote about coffee shop owners, shoe-cleaners, pickpockets, the bean seller, the shard seller, the beggar, and so on." al Majzoub mentioned the reasons in the introduction to Nar Al Majazib: “I have benefited a lot from mingling with people, especially the poor, for they have a striking sincerity that has benefited me and cured me".<ref name=":2" />
al-Majzoub was one of those who wrote a great deal of poetry, so he produced several collections of poetry, and he was active in his generation, so he edited and wrote in several Sudanese and Arab magazines and newspapers. He also presented a number of other books and collections.
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=== Poltical life ===
al-Majthub founded with [[Mahmoud Mohammed Taha|Mahmoud Muhammad Taha]] the [[Republican Brotherhood]] in Sudan
al-Majthub died on 3 March 1982 in [[Omdurman]], Sudan.<ref name=":2" />
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