The Sudanese Mahdī headed a millenarian, revivalist, reformist movement, strongly inspired by Salafī and Ṣūfī ideas in the late 19th century. He establish

This paper analyzes the Mahdist Revolution in the Sudan from 1881 to 1885. Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdallah proclaimed himself the Mahdi (the expected one or the del

The Mahdist Revolution began in the Sudan in 1881. Mohammed Ahmed proclaimed himself the Mahdi (the expected one or the deliverer in the Islamic faith), and cla