The Mahdi proclaims a jihad against the…

1876 CE to 1887 CE

The Mahdi proclaims a jihad against the Turkiyyah while he was at Aba Island, a Mahdist base on the White Nile south of Khartoum, in May 1881.

At the time, Sudanese authorities dismiss him as a reli­gious fanatic.

After denouncing tax collectors, the Mahdi and his follow­ers, known as the Ansar, flede to Kordofan to avoid arrest.

Once there, he gains a large number of recruits, especially among the Baqqara, and the support or neutrality of all religious orders except the pro-Egyptian Khatrniyyah.

Merchants and Arab tribes who had depended on the slave trade, along with the Hadendowa Beja, rally to the Mahdi's cause.

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Khartoum > Al-Khartum Al-Khartum Sudan View →

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Abdullah Ibn-Mohammed Al-Khalifa View → Charles George Gordon View → Muhammad Ahmad View → Tewfik Pasha View →

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Nubians View → Arab people View → Beja people View → Ja'alin tribe View → Christians, Monophysite View → Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria View → Christianity, Chalcedonian View → Islam View → Muslims, Sunni View → Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe) View → Funj people View → Ottoman Empire View → Beja people View → Sennar, Funj Sultanate of View → Baggara View → Shaigiya View → Egypt, (Ottoman) Viceroyalty of View → Sudan, Turco-Egyptian View → Egypt, Khedivate of View →

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Weapons View → Slaves View →

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Commerce View → Watercraft View → Labor and Service View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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