Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Majdhub (Arabic: محمد المهدي المجذوب // ⓘ; 1919 - 3 March 1982), also spelled al-Maghut or al-Majzoub, was a renowned Sudanese poet.

Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Majdhub was born in 1919 in al-Damar, the capital of the River Nile state in North Sudan.

[1] al-Majdhub travelled to Khartoum for school, and joined the Gordon Memorial College and graduated as an accountant.

[3] al-Majdhub worked as an accountant in the government of Sudan and moved between the north, south, east and west, which benefited him in creating an imaginary repertoire that, along with his innate readiness, paved the way for the development of his poetic craft.

Within the pages of al-Fajr, writers such as al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir and Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub made their initial debut.

[4] According to historian Huda Fakhreddine, the members of the Fajr group possessed an understanding of Sudan's hybrid cultural heritage and the historical currents that contributed to its distinctiveness.

[1][7] One of the most important features of al-Majdhub's poetry is his interest in the simple man in the street, as 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).

(2021-03-31), "Muhammad al-Maghut and Poetic Detachment", The Arabic Prose Poem, Edinburgh University Press, pp.