22 giug 1885 anni - Muhammad Ahmad Al Mahdi

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Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah (Arabic: محمد أحمد ابن عبد الله‎; 12 August 1844 – 22 June 1885) was a Nubian[1] Sufi religious leader of the Samaniyya order in Sudan who, as a youth, studied Sunni Islam. In 1881, he claimed to be the Mahdi. He led a successful war against Ottoman-Egyptian military rule in Sudan and achieved a remarkable victory over the British, in the Siege of Khartoum. He created a vast Islamic state extending from the Red Sea to Central Africa, and founded a movement that remained influential in Sudan a century later.

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