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Abd Allāh (1846–1899)

Sudanese ruler from 1885. He succeeded the Mahdi (Islamic leader) Muhammad Ahmed, but was defeated by British forces under General Kitchener at Omdurman in 1898. He was killed one year later at the battle of Umm Diwaykarat.

He controlled the Mahdists and ruled through a formal bureaucracy.



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