THE ‘GUIDED ONE’

Sudanese anger against the religious and economic policies of Ottoman-egyptian officials leads a Muslim cleric called Muhammad Ahmad to proclaim himself the ‘Mahdi’ (‘Guided One’)

– the promised redeemer of the Islamic world. His ‘Mahdist’ followers revolt against the Egyptians.

Muhammad Ahmad establishes the Mahdist State, a Sudanese theocracy that he rules until his death in 1885 – six months after the fall of Khartoum