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Khomeini may even wish to transcend Iranian nationalism and export his fundamentalist Islamic revival. The prospect of such contagious piety disturbs other Muslim leaders, the Saudi royal family, for example. But it also raises apprehension and a certain amount of bewilderment in the West. When Mahdist Saudi zealots took over the mosque in Mecca last month, the Islamic world displayed a disconcerting readiness to believe Khomeini's incendiary report that the attack had been the work of Zionists and U.S. imperialists. "The Americans have done it again," many Muslims told themselves reflexively. Some Americans have responded by asking with...
...attackers remained unknown. The first rumor that spread through the Arab world was that the invaders were Iranian Shi'ites who had been influenced by Khomeini's recent calls for a general uprising by Muslim fundamentalists. Others speculated that the terrorists were members of an extreme Mahdist sect aligned with the Shi'ites. Still others said they were not Shi'ites at all but fanatical Sunni purists known as Wahhabis. At week's end, with the Riyadh regime saying nothing publicly, the best guess of Western intelligence experts was that the attackers were members...
...Cabinet. The south was unimpressed. The offers fell far short of the provincial autonomy demanded by even moderate southern leaders. Still worse, the power behind the new regime was a bright young man named Sadik el Mahdi-scion of the Sudan's richest family and boss of the Mahdist sect, which to the south is the very symbol of centuries of Arab rule. Instead of listening to reason, the blacks renewed the attack...
Into Obscurity. When the war ended, the Special Artists themselves slipped into an obscurity that was hastened by the development of the camera as the most accurate witness of passing events. Frank Vizetelly returned to England, pursued his craft on a variety of assignments; in 1883, covering the Mahdist insurrection in the Sudan, he vanished forever during the massacre at Kashgil. Alfred Waud stayed on at Harper's, a minor commercial artist. Leslie's Edwin Forbes established a studio in Brooklyn and painted landscapes and cattle...
...Blacks. When the British army occupied Egypt (1882), an attempt was made to bring order also to these vassal states, but for a score of years a local religious leader, the Mahdi, with thousands of fanatical followers called Dervishes, resisted the British. At Omdurman (1898) the 60,000 Mahdist spearmen were whipped. A year later the British made a treaty with Egypt, cutting Egypt in for a half share in the management of the Sudan. For all its name, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (an area one-third the size of the U.S.) was a solid segment of the British Empire...
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