Word: mahdi
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...Majesty's General Charlton Heston (see CINEMA). The movie stops there, but the British did not. Thirteen years later, they recaptured the city and slaughtered 11,000 dervishes, including all known male descendants of the character Olivier portrays, the fierce prophet El Mahdi...
...member of the family escaped. The British overlooked the youngest of the prophet's twelve sons, who kept his father's sect alive, founded a cotton empire, and had six sons of his own. Today, El Mahdi's descendants again rule the Sudan. His grandson, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, is the stiff, unyielding religious leader of the sect to which most Sudanese Moslems belong. A great-grandson, Sadik el Mahdi, is a young British-educated economist who led the Mahdists' Umma Party to victory in last year's election...
...Party. With the coalition falling apart, Sadik last week decided that the time had come for him to move out of the back ground. Over the vociferous protests of his uncle, the Imam, he led Parliament in a revolt that ousted Mahgoub and elected a new Premier: Sadik el Mahdi...
...Moslem fanatics had trapped an Egyptian army at Khartoum, Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone sent Gordon (Charlton Heston) and one aide to rescue it. Gordon organized Khartoum for a 317-day defense against the dervishes of Mohammed Ahmed (Sir Laurence Olivier), who called himself the Mahdi, meaning "the Expected One." Khartoum finally fell on Jan. 26, 1885. Gordon, who had rejected the Mahdi's offer of safe passage out, died with a dervish's spear in his chest...
Ultimatum. In the wake of the Juba massacre came a new hard line from Khartoum. Abandoning all hopes of reconciliation, Mahdi-backed Prime Minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub rushed heavy reinforcements to the three rebellious provinces and issued an ultimatum to the guerrillas to surrender their arms-or face "severe measures...