| Description |
1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" by Rudyard Kipling; Prologue; Chapter 1 The Land and the Prophet; Chapter 2 The Coming of the Mahdi; Chapter 3 Revolt in the Desert; Chapter 4 The City Between the Rivers; Chapter 5 Gordon; Chapter 6 The Siege Begins; Chapter 7 London and Cairo; Chapter 8 The Duel; Chapter 9 The Relief Column; Chapter 10 The Fall of Khartoum; Chapter 11 The Death of the Mahdi; Chapter 12 Omdurman; Epilogue; Author's Note; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Before there was Osama bin Laden, Abu al-Zarqawi or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi-the ""Expected One""--Who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in the late 19th-century Sudan. Born on the Nile in 1844, Muhammed Ahmed grew into a devout, charismatic young man, whose visage was said to have always featured the placid hint of a smile. He developed a ferocious resentment, however, against the corrupt Ottoman Turks, their Egyptian lackeys, and finally the Europeans who he felt held the Arab people in subjugation. In 1880, he raised the banner of holy war, a |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
History.
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History
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history (discipline)
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HISTORY -- Africa -- East.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781935149613 |
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193514961X |
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