Sudan: A door keeper at the house of the former Mahdi, Omdurman, 1936. Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah (12 August 1844 - 22 June 1885) was a religious leader of the Samaniyya order in Sudan who, on June 29, 1881, proclaimed himself as the Mahdi or messianic redeemer of the Islamic faith. His proclamation came during a period of widespread resentment among the Sudanese population of the oppressive policies of the Turco-Egyptian rulers, and capitalised on the messianic beliefs popular among the various Sudanese religious sects of the time.

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