Regional relations remain tense throughout much of…

1888 CE to 1899 CE

Regional relations remain tense throughout much of the Mahdi­yyah period, largely because of the Khalifa's commitment to jihad as the means to extend his version of Islam throughout the world.

For example, the Khalifa rejects an offer of an alliance against the Europe­ans by Ethiopia's Yohannes IV, a Christian monarch.

In 1888 a sixty thousand-man Ansar army invades Ethiopia and penetrates as far as Gondar, cap­turing prisoners and booty.

The Khalifa's refusal to conclude peace prompts an Ethiopian attack on Qallabat in March 1889; however, after Yohannes IV falls in battle, the Ethiopians withdraw.

The same year, the Khalifa's best general invades Egypt, but British-led Egyptian troops defeat him at Tushki, a victory that ends the Ansar's reputa­tion of invincibility.

The Belgians prevent the Mahdi's men from conquering Equatoria, and in 1893 the Italians repulse an Ansar attack at Akordat in present-day Eritrea, forcing the Ansar to withdraw from Ethiopia.

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Khartoum > Al-Khartum Al-Khartum Sudan View →

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Abdullah Ibn-Mohammed Al-Khalifa View → Muhammad Ahmad View → Tewfik Pasha View → Yohannes IV 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 → Belgium, Kingdom of View → Egypt, Khedivate of View → Italy, Kingdom of View → Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of View →

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