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Mahdist War
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Mahdist War
The
Mahdist War
(1881–99) was a British
colonial war
of the late 19th century, which was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader
Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah
, who had proclaimed himself the "
Mahdi
" of
Islam
(the “Guided One”), and the forces of the
Khedivate of Egypt
, initially, and later the forces of
Britain
. From 18 years of colonial war resulted the joint-rule state of the
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
(1899–1956), a
condominium
of the
British Empire
and the
Kingdom of Egypt
.
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