Mahdist

The soldiers split into two groups, Mahdist forces dressed in jibbas and armed with wooden spears and swords and Turkkiya troops in military uniforms with bayonets at hand.

They defeated the Egyptian soldiers and established the Mahdist state that was based on the Shari'alaw.

These include religious conflict, mobilization on the basis of Islam in Sudan and Egypt during the Urabi and Mahdist revolts, and mobilization on the basis of Jacobite Christianity in Ethiopia against the Egyptians, the Sudanese, and eventually the Europeans.

As usual, there are always exceptions or partial similarities--in this respect we can perhaps compare the early Joachites to the Mahdist movements in the peripheries of the Islamic world or to the doctrine of the militant Nizari Isma'ili Shi'ites.

Was it likely that he was involved in Mahdist movements or had any doctrine regarding the coming of the Mahdi?

In The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, Winston Churchill presented the British perspective on the conflict between British/Egyptian forces and the Sudanese forces of the Sudanese Mahdist Revolt of the late 19th century, largely focusing, as one might expect, on the agency of the British officers involved in the fighting.

The Anglo-Egyptian relationship was further complicated by the Sudan, which, with the defeat of Mahdist forces in 1899, was administered through the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium.

Artefacts from the Mahdist revolt of the late 19th century in Sudan will also be displayed for the first time.

1885: Major-general Charles George Gordon, British commander and Governor of the Sudan, was killed by a spear while besieged at Khartoum by forces of the Mahdist rebellion.

However, neither the Egyptian nor the Mahdist state (1883-1898) had any effective control of the southern region outside of a few garrisons.

During the 1870s, European initiatives against the slave trade caused an economic crisis in southern Sudan, precipitating the rise of Mahdist forces.

In contemporary Iraq, there is even more opportunity for radical Shiite elements of the Mahdist movement to express themselves--far greater, in fact, than there is in neighboring Iran.

He preached religion and ignited a sense of nationalism that led to the 1885 revolution -- what has come to be known as the Mahdist War.

To add to this we have the emergence of a Mahdist Iran led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and armed with nuclear weapons, which promises to add a dangerous element to the already volatile mix.

In addition, the Bornuese pilgrim evokes the boundary of Borno with the Mahdist state founded by Hayatu ibn Sa'id in Adamawa (Kanya-Forstner and Lovejoy, 1997, p.111 and Warburg, 2003).