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Ahmad Muhammad Ibn Abd Allah Al Mahdi
| Muhammad Ahmad ibn Abd Allah Al-Mahdi | |
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| Birth | 12 August 1844 |
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| Deaths | 22 June 1885 |
Muhammad Ahmad ibn Abd Allah Al-Mahdi ( 12 August 1844 - 22 June 1885 ) is a religious political leader who was the founder of a movement whose influence persists in the Sudan.
Advocating a divine mission to purify Islam, claiming to be the Mahdi announced by Islam, the highest point of its movement during the Mahdist War was the capture of Khartoum on 26 January 1885 despite the defense of Charles George Gordon. He founded a theocratic state with its capital in Sudan Omdurman , where his tomb.
The State madhiste survive its founder, until its destruction in 1898 by the British army under the command of Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener.
Sources
- (In) Philip Warner, Dervish, The Rise and Fall of an African empire, Wordsworth Editions, Great Britain, 2000, ISBN 1-84022-246-8
- "Mahdi al-." Encyclopdia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopdia Britannica Premium Service
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