A Brief Introduction to the Mahdiyya
The Sudanese Mahdiyya, 1881–1898 A Brief Introduction Update of 7/25/24: The author recommends the reader also consult a). Fergus Nicoll's A Bibliography of the Mahd īa: بيبلوغرافيا المهدية (Khartoum: Q āsim Data Centre, 2010) and b). Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk's "A Bibliography of the Mahdist State in the Sudan (1881-1898)" Sudanic Africa 10 (1999), 133-168. During the 19th century Egypt, a nominal piece of the Ottoman Empire, had expanded southwards up the Nile establishing a colonial rule over the regions now known as modern Sudan, South Sudan, and Eritrea ( For an in-depth overview of the Turco-Egyptian Sudan see: Hill, Richard Leslie. Egypt in the Sudan, 1820–1881 . (London: Oxford University Press, 1966). However, Egypt’s rule over the Sudan was not a pleasant one with a multitude of complaints being caused due to corruption within the Turco-Egyptian regime alongside a number of tribal and religious conflicts ( Shuqayr, Na’um. Ta’rikh al-Sudan . ed. Muham