1302 AH
Muhammad Ahmad, who declared himself the Mahdi in 1881, takes Khartoum from the British-backed Egyptians. His state lasts until British guns destroy it at Omdurman in 1898.
How it touches Islam Most scholars rejected his claim: the hadith describe the true Mahdi by signs he did not fulfil.
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Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
