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Identification
ʻAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Taʻāʼišī
عبد الله بن محمد التعائشي
Titles: Ḫalīfa
Dates
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Birth
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Death
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Biographic comments
He was a Sudanese soldier, and one of the anṣār (here in the sense of "supporters") during the Mahdist war against the British and their Egyptian allies. He succeded to the Mahdī Muḥammad Aḥmad and was finally defeated at the Battle of Omdurman on September 2, 1898.
Additional information
References
- Person Successor of al-Mahdī, Muḥammad Aḥmad b. sayyid ʻAbd Allāh b. Faḥl / المهدي٬ محمد أحمد بن سيد عبد الله بن فحل
Bibliographical references
- Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, volume 3, He-O: 657-659 on page 657-659