- new
polity functioned as a
jihad state, run like a
military camp. The
Mahdiyah equalized its male
citizenry in
totalitarian asceticism,
mandating communal...
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Mahdia (Arabic: المهدية al-
Mahdīyah) is a
Tunisian coastal city with 76,513 inhabitants,
south of
Monastir and
southeast of Sousse.
Mahdia is a provincial...
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Mahdia is a city in Tunisia.
Mahdia may also
refer to:
Mahdia Governorate in
Tunisia Mahdia,
Guyana History of
Mahdist Sudan Mehdya, a city in Morocco...
- 1888–1889, and 1891
before emerging as sole
leader of the
Mahdiyah or
Mahdist State. At
first the
Mahdiyah was run on
military lines as a
jihad state, with the...
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Baggara Arabs of the west. He
proved to be an able and
ruthless ruler of the
Mahdiyah, the
Mahdist state. At
first the
state was run on
military lines as a Jihadist...
-
withdrew from Sudan. The
Mahdi then
founded a
religious state in Sudan, the
Mahdiyah,
which would last for
fourteen years. The
Khedivate of
Egypt was nominally...
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surrendered to him a
choice between adopting Islam or
being killed. The
Mahdiyah (Mahdist regime)
imposed traditional Sharia Islamic laws. On 12 August...
- power:
claimant Mahdis have
founded states (e.g. the late 19th-century
Mahdiyah in Sudan), as well as
religions and
sects (e.g. Bábism, or the Ahmadiyya...
- The
Ansar (Arabic: أنصار) are a Sufi
religious movement in the
Sudan whose followers are
disciples of
Muhammad Ahmad (12
August 1844 – 22 June 1885), a...
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revived as a de
facto independent state in 1898
after the
defeat of the
Mahdiyah. The
Keira dynasty finally ended in 1916 when the
British annexed Darfur...
