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	Battle of Umm Diwaykarat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mahdists still controlled the territory of Kordofan, Darfur and lands bordering Ethiopia.
		At about 5am the Mahdists began to attack the approaching British, but were driven back by withering fire from Maxim guns.
		The remnants of the Mahdists continued to resist for a short while under Osman Digna, but he was caught in January 1900.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Umm_Diwaykarat (346 words)

	Savage and Soldier Online
		The flag represented adherence to the Mahdist cause, recognition from the Mahdi as a legitimate agent, promotion into the hierarchy of Mahdist military commanders and the focus around which a local Mahdist army was gathered.
		Small flags, bearing the Mahdist creed were often planted in Egyptian soil by small raiding bands from the frontier who set out specifically to plant the flags in the midst of the Egyptian population.
		Mahdist flags were sewn together from many different pieces of cloth, the obverse, reverse, borders and letters were often of different colors.
	www.savageandsoldier.com /sudan/MahdistFlags.html (2751 words)

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		Mahdists also approvingly cite the warnings in the Book of Revelation about the great battle of Armageddon, alongside Qur'an and Hadith, with the name either Arabicized to Harmagiddun or reentitled al-Malhamah al-Kubra, the great battle.
		Mahdist circles may not be official or establishment, but their denizens have drunk as deeply at this well as have the muftis of al-Azhar, and perhaps more so.
		Mahdist prognosticators interpret Hadith to mean that Jews will be among the largest contingent of the Dajjal's followers, with his vanguard consisting of perhaps 70,000 of them, from Isfahan (Iran).
	www.sociologyesoscience.com /background.html (2769 words)

	Dervishes, Mahdism - and Islamic End of Times
		Mahdists were also depicted as intrinsically cruel since they never offered any prospect of quarter for defeated enemies (unless they converted to their variant of Islam), but, on the contrary, threatened 'the certain death which Mahomedan ferocity and fanaticism inflicts upon the vanquished'.
		There were also periodic reports of dissatisfaction among Mahdist tribesmen, and reports of extensive looting after battles and sieges, despite the prohibition of private plunder by the Mahdi and his injunction that all loot had to be surrendered to the bait al mal, or the Mahdist treasury.
		It was also apparent that some Mahdist armies learned from previous encounters and adopted new tactics: when Osman Digna faced another challenge from an expeditionary force under General Graham's command in 1885, he sought to avoid the heavy casualties of the previous year by refraining from attacking squares and camps in the open.
	pnews.org /ArT/EuR/Dervishes.shtml (5670 words)

	Last Outpost rules
		The upper floors: Mahdists can fight their way up to the second floor and roof of the redoubt the same way that they fight through the door; that is, one AE figure can defend the ladder and two Mahdists can attack.
		Mahdist casualty markers are used to "resurrect" dead Mahdist figures.
		Five dead Mahdist figures can be returned to play (at the back of their original wave) in exchange for one casualty marker.
	home.comcast.net /~theangle/LastOutp/lorules.htm (1668 words)

	Britain Egypt Ethiopia Mahdist Holy War 1881-1885
		The Mahdist movement demanded a return to the simplicity of early Islam, abstention from alcohol and tobacco, and the strict seclusion of women.
		The Mahdists then besieged the city to starve it into submission; they destroyed an expedition coming to its relief; and on January 17, 1883, the city surrendered.
		The British government advised the Egyptians to abandon the Sudan to the Mahdists and sent General Charles George "Chinese" Gordon (1833-1885) to oversee the evacuation of Khartoum.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/mike/mahdi1881.htm (2077 words)

	Savage and Soldier Online
		The frontier was garrisoned against a potential Mahdist invasion by a Frontier Field Force composed of units from the British garrison in Egypt and the new Egyptian army.
		Documentation of the Mahdist force at the frontier is less clear, and it is evident that the Intelligence department, still in its infancy, had only the vaguest idea of Mahdist strength and intentions.
		The Mahdist artillery fire became increasingly accurate during the month-long siege, and one shell dismounted the fort's Gardner gun on December 20th.
	www.savageandsoldier.com /sudan/Ginnis.html (2859 words)

	Dervish
		When the Mahdists enter a town that was last occupied by enemy units add 1D6 S units instantly to that hex.
		The Mahdist player must roll on the Mahdist random event table for the period being played and act upon the results.
		The Mahdist player may continue to roll for any or all of his units 1 unit or stack at a time until all have moved or elected not to march or have received no march results.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Battlefield/8948/Dervish1.html (4294 words)

	Nubia 2 - Crystalinks
		In the southern Sudan the Mahdists had scored some initial successes but were driven from the upper Nile in 1897 by the forces of the Congo Free State of Leopold II of Belgium.
		The Mahdist state had squandered its resources on the jihad, and a period of consolidation and contraction followed, necessitated by a sequence of bad harvests resulting in famine, epidemic, and death.
		The Mahdists were decisively defeated with heavy losses, and the Khalifah fled, to be killed nearly a year later.
	www.crystalinks.com /nubia2.html (4335 words)

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		The main Mahdist garrison in Rejaf found itself in the midst of a congeries of private slave armies led by mutineers, deserters, renegade Turks and ex-Jihadiyya.
		Mahdist responses to these events consisted of a few raids into the province for slaves to serve as troops in combatting this new European threat.
		In 1894 the bulk of Mahdist forces moving to intercept the Belgians was annihilated in a Dinka ambush.
	vlib.iue.it /carrie/texts/carrie_books/sconyers/00-2.html (6017 words)

	Mahdist Revolt - History - Sudan - Africa
		The anarchic state of affairs that developed after Gordon’s resignation culminated in 1882 in a revolution led by Muhammad Ahmad, who in 1881 had proclaimed himself the Mahdi, the person who, according to an Islamic tradition, would rid the world of evil.
		With the latter victory, in which Gordon was killed, the Mahdists won complete control over the province.
		Conditions in Egyptian Sudan deteriorated under the rule of the Mahdi and of the caliph Abdallah at-Taaisha, who succeeded the Mahdi in 1885.
	www.countriesquest.com /africa/sudan/history/mahdist_revolt.htm (251 words)

	The Limits and Dilemmas of "Secular" Re-Islamisation Programmes: Religion and Peacemaking: U.S. Institute of ...
		One example of it is the transformation of the Mahdist movement in Sudan at the hands of the Mahdi's posthumous son, Sayyid Abd al Rahman.
		The military defeat of the Mahdist movement at the hands of the British in 1898 created a series of dilemmas for the substantial army of faithful who survived the disaster.
		While Nimeiri appeared to be in "Mahdist" mood during his Islamisation programme, heavily influenced as he had then been by his close sufi advisors, he was sober enough to make it clear that he was more concerned with consolidating his rule than with implementing abstract values.
	www.usip.org /religionpeace/rehr/sudanconf/elaffendi.html (2839 words)

	Untitled Document
		The story of the Mahdist rebellion, as it was called, was reported in the British press, and the British people called for someone to take control of the Sudan back from the Mahdi, or at least ensure the safety of those who opposed him.
		It was through this breach that the Mahdist forces poured on the morning of January 26.
		The Mahdists, under the control of the Khalifa, retained control of Sudan until the British army, under the control of General Kitchener, reconquered the terrritory in 1898.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /~amcdouga/Hist446/readings/gordon_and_mahdi.htm (2405 words)

	The third Green Nile game run by Jackson Gamers
		Between the British firepower afloat and the Yazulu numbers, the Mahdists were defeated, evening the score in the campaign to 2 battles won for each side.
		The naval commander relaxes in the background as the Mahdist steamer plows ashore at the village.
		Fred Diamond, the Mahdist chief emir stares glumly at the river.
	www.angelfire.com /games3/jacksongamer/grn_nile5.htm (809 words)

	The third Green Nile game run by Jackson Gamers
		Mahdist guns are shown as a small ball with a barrel protruding.
		The camel corps are outnumbered by the cavalry charging in from the right, and the Ansar unit immediately in front of the camera which poured down the slope into the town.
		Mahdists on top of the high ridge on their right flank take pot shots at the Indian infantry.
	www.angelfire.com /games3/jacksongamer/grn_nile4.htm (1002 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		In his reform of Islam the Mahdi forbade the pilgrimage to Mecca and substituted the obligation to serve in the holy war against unbelievers.
		His followers, known as Mahdists, for a time made pilgrimages to his tomb at Omdurman.
		The final defeat of the Mahdists in 1898 at Omdurman by an Anglo-Egyptian army under Lord Kitchener gave Great Britain control of Sudan.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Mahdi (240 words)

	The University of Chicago Martin Marty Center
		While the British posed their conquest in terms of freeing the Sudanese from a violent tyrant, it is crucial to note that it was not simply abuses of power that Wingate pointed to as the justification for British military action against the Mahdiya.
		It was this orthodoxy that the Mahdists rose against, but we must be careful to recognize that in its place the Mahdists set up another kind of orthodoxy, though with a very different theological content.
		Khartoum, which had been more or less abandoned and destroyed during the Mahdist uprising, was to be rebuilt as the capital of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the British wanted to show in their capital that they were sensitive to Islam.
	marty-center.uchicago.edu /webforum/052004/commentary.shtml (8600 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		This is a traditional Muslim figure chosen by Allah to lead the jihad (holy war) in defence of Islam, and to rid the world of evil.
		The Mahdist revolt began in 1880 and resulted in the capture of Khartoum in 1885, with a complete victory over the Egyptian army.
		The Mahdist state was overthrown and the era of The Condominium began.Â
	www.arab.net /sudan/sn_euro.htm (272 words)

	Shiism As Mahdism: Reflections On A Doctrine of Hope
		The content of Mahdist “promise” unfolds in man’s journey with God, in the anticipatory hope of the coming reality of the “expected Savior,” in whom is sustained the faith in the end of human suffering and the celebration and fulfillment of justice.
		The potential failure of man in this duty is eternally inscribed in the Mahdist occultationist wisdom of Islam, predicated on the assumption of man’s imperfection and the continuing battle with the forces of wickedness and amorality, i.e., Dajjal.
		The Mahdist “not yet” elan is, then, rather nullified even by the mildest pretext of direct connectionality by his self-declared disciples, for the mere assumption of direct connection breaks into the structural component of its eschatology, its duplex structure built in time and space on one floor and on a separate dimension on the other.
	www.payvand.com /news/03/nov/1126.html (1578 words)

	Bin Ladin: The Man Who Would Be Mahdi - Middle East Quarterly
		The Mahdist movement of Sudan is a particularly relevant precedent, because it was aimed not only against European imperialism, but first and foremost against allegedly illegitimate Muslim rulers.
		Since this Mahdist movement was crushed in 1979, Mahdism has gone underground, its true believers in the Sunni Arab world relegated to churning out writings predicting the eventual appearance of a Mahdi who will restore Islam to its rightful place of global preeminence.
		The basic lesson of both episodes is this: to defeat a Mahdist uprising, it is necessary to generate counter-Mahdist propaganda, alongside the necessary military measures to contain and quash that uprising.
	www.meforum.org /article/159 (3267 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books Supplement \| Tales of the Mahdi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In addition, for all its religiously inspired rigour the Mahdist regime was not notable for its probity.
		However, Suleiman was far from being a responsible administrator, and the full extent of the corruption that infested the Mahdist state's finances was only discovered after the collapse of the regime.
		Furthermore, the Mahdist movement in the Sudan took place at a time when Egypt itself was undergoing profound political and socio-economic change.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/756/bo12.htm (1764 words)

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		Mahdist units in Omdurman (across the Nile) attack them.
		The Mahdists (with a little luck on the March Table) should be able to sweep into Tokar on turn 1.
		Mahdist units may not be set up in Wadi Halfa, Suakin and/or Kassala.
	grognard.com /errata/sunnever.txt (2291 words)

	:: Gurtong Peace Project - Editor's Corner ::
		With regard to the Mahdi, the Mahdiyya and the Mahdists, they conjure up three different images in the minds of South Sudanese: one is bright full of hope, the second is darkness and the third is lies and deceptions.
		The Mahdists in general and in particular the present great grandson, Imam Sadiq al Mahdi, are seen in the South as having brought nothing but shame to the Mahdi himself.
		He concludes: “Consequently any revolt on the part of the Dinka was probably divorced from Mahdist influence and arose almost solely from grievances against the Danaqla merchants and officials and the constant desire to eliminate the burdens of government from their domain.
	www.gurtong.org /ResourceCenter/editorscorner/edart_details.asp?editorsitem_id=62 (2479 words)

	Colonial Wargames - The Mirkat Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Colonel was not mistaken in his belief that the Mahdists would try to re-take Koktat as soon as possible.
		Mahdist casualties were heavy, and Gourd sent messages to Osman Dogma asking for further troops to be sent to aid him.
		The steady rifle fire of the 1st Egyptian Infantry Battalion and IX Sudanese Infantry Battalion, augmented by the Shrapnel shells of 1st Egyptian Artillery Battery, caused considerable casualties amongst the Mahdists.
	www.colonialwargames.org.uk /EAfrica/Battles/Mirkat.htm (1595 words)

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		Now they would gather their strength, send the Mahdist summons to other parts of Sudan by means of khalayah, revolutionary Mahdist cells whose job was to convert local notables, like tribal and Sufi leaders.
		Mahdist women were also to avoid "imitating masculine manners," except when fighting unbelievers.
		Eventually Mahdist ideology was sublimated into Sudan's Ummah Party, which for much of modern history constituted the opposition party in that country.
	www.sociologyesoscience.com /holiestw.html (6790 words)

	Charge of the 21st Lancers, Omdurman on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		On 17 Jan 1885, this column, commanded by Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Stuart, was attacked by the Mahdists at Abu Klea.
		A Mahdist invasion of Egypt was defeated in 1888, but it was not until 1896 that the Government, possibly concerned that if Britain did not conquer the Sudan, then the Italians and French would, authorised military action.
		Omdurman broke the power of the Mahdists and although the Khalifa remained at large until the following November, the Sudan was quickly pacified.
	www.flickr.com /photos/meandophelia/2089039 (717 words)

	Colonial Wargames - The Wickes Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The garrison was under constant threat of attack by Mahdist forces led by Osman Dogma and his trusted lieutenants Omar Gourd and Emir Baggar-Tel, and what later became known as 'The Wickes Expedition' arose because of increasing Egyptian (and thus British) disquiet about the depredations wreaked upon the area by the Mahdists.
		Dogma and his Mahdists were believed to be based in and around the town of Dahmot, and Wickes decided to march on the town with all available troops.
		Despite this set-back there had been no sign of the Mahdist forces, and as the column began to form square and make camp for the night Colonel Wickes confided to his diary that he fully expected to make a surprise attack on Osman Dogma's army early on the next morning.
	www.colonialwargames.org.uk /EAfrica/Battles/Wickes.htm (1528 words)

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