The Mahdi had died of typhus six…

1888 CE to 1899 CE

The Mahdi had died of typhus six months after Khartoum's capture.

The task of establishing and maintaining a government had fallen to three of his deputies.

Rivalry among these caliphs continues until 1891, when Abdallahi Ibn Muhammad, with the help primarily of the Baqqara Arabs, emerges as leader of the Mahdiyyah.

Abdallahi—called the Khalifa (successor)—purges the Mahdiyyah of members of the Mahdi's family and many of his religious disciples.

Originally, the Mahdiyyah had been a jihadist state, run like a military camp.

Sharia courts enforced Islamic law and the Mahdi's precepts, which had the force of law.

The Khalifa, after consolidating his power, creates an administration and appoints Ansar (who are usually Baqqara Arabs) as amirs over each of the several provinces.

The Khalifa also rules over rich Al-Gezira.

Although he fails to restore this region's commercial well-being, he organizes workshops to manufacture ammunition and to maintain river steamboats.

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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 → Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley View → Muhammad Ahmad View → Tewfik Pasha View → William Ewart Gladstone 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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