Word: mahdi
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...Mohammed Ali, conquered the Sudan in 1820 and began 60 years of maladministration and slaving. (To this day, the Egyptian gutter name for Sudanese is "Abid," which means the slaves.) In 1882, rotting Egypt burst apart; the British moved into Egypt proper, and a religious fakir, calling himself El Mahdi (The Messiah), took the Sudan. Famed General "Chinese" Gordon, an Englishman employed by the Egyptians, tried a holding operation in Khartoum, but died on the steps of his headquarters, a human pincushion for dervish spears...
This surprising accord was hammered out in eight days of talks in Cairo with white-bearded, wealthy Sir Abdel Rahman El Mahdi of Sudan.* They agreed that the Sudanese should elect a legislative assembly by year's end, and thereafter practice full home rule under the supervision of the British governor general. Then, within three years, by Dec. 31, 1955 at the latest, the 8,000,000 Sudanese are to vote again on whether they want to remain independent or join Egypt...
...famed Mahdi whose forces seized Khartoum in 1885, and were finally routed by Kitchener...
...fighters. His maternal grandfather, a lieutenant colonel, fought and died alongside Britain's famed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon, in the siege of Khartoum*; his father, Captain Youssef Naguib, marched with Lord Kitchener and a young British war correspondent named Winston Churchill to reconquer the Sudan from the Mahdi. Captain Naguib married a black-eyed Sudanese beauty who bore him nine children. Mohammed Naguib, 51, was the eldest of their three sons, born in Khartoum, but raised in the mud-walled village of Wad Medani, where his father was District Commissioner. Young Mohammed and his brothers, Aly and Mahmoud...
...Taken in 1885 by the Mahdi, an apprentice boatbuilder turned Moslem revivalist, and his fanatic host...