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The Cult Dossier · No. 139 · Apocalyptic / Doomsday
The Mahdist State
Mahdiyya; the Sudanese Mahdi
1881 – 1898 · Sudan
XIII. FILLING THE GAPS — ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA
Fully religious — Islamic messianic movement and state
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 29 June 1881 Declares himself the Mahdi on Aba Island.
- 1883 Annihilates an Anglo-Egyptian army of 10,000 under William Hicks at El Obeid.
- 26 JANUARY 1885 KHARTOUM FALLS after a 317-day siege; General Gordon is killed on the palace steps. The relief expedition arrives two days late.
- 22 June 1885 Muhammad Ahmad dies of typhus, six months after his greatest victory.
- 1885–98 The Khalifa rules an independent Sudanese state for thirteen years.
- 2 SEPTEMBER 1898 THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN. Kitchener's roughly 25,000 troops, with artillery and machine guns, destroy a Mahdist army usually given as 35,000 to 50,000, armed largely with spears and swords, in a matter of hours. MAHDIST DEAD ARE GIVEN AS 10,000 OR 12,000 DEPENDING ON SOURCE, with a further 10,000–13,000 wounded and about 5,000 captured. ANGLO-EGYPTIAN LOSSES WERE 47–48 DEAD and 382 wounded. Winston Churchill, aged 23, rode in the charge of the 21st Lancers and wrote THE RIVER WAR about it in 1899 — AND SOFTENED HIS CRITICISM OF KITCHENER IN THE SECOND EDITION OF 1902.
- 1899 The Khalifa is killed; the state ends.
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