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Siege of Khartoum

حصار الخرطوم

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for the Siege of Khartoum of 1884–85, the city's fall to the Mahdists and Gordon's death; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

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The Colonial Era
Region
East Africa & Swahili coast
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The Colonial Era

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Muhammad Ahmad

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Muhammad Ahmad

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  • Tarikh al-Islam — Hasan Ibrahim Hasan
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Muhammad Ahmad

Sudanese religious and political leader (1844–1885) and a sheikh of the Sammaniyya Sufi order. In 1881 he proclaimed himself the Mahdi — a claim his followers, the Ansar, believed and many scholars of his day rejected — and led the revolt that overthrew Turco-Egyptian rule in Sudan, took Khartoum in 1885 and founded the Mahdist State with its capital at Omdurman. He died of typhus five months after Khartoum fell.