Sects Ed PODCAST Episode 14: A Mahdist Proposal (Mahdism)
Channel: Sects Ed
Date: 02/09/2017

On June 29, 1881, Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah declared that he was the Mahdi, a messianic figure aiming to expel the British and Ottoman Empires from the Sudan and create a theocratic Islamic state. Join us as we discuss the Mahdi's rise and revolt in this first part of our series on the Mahdist Revolution. To learn more about Sects Ed and access show notes for this episode, visit our website here: https://www.sectsed.com

Correction: The Funj Sultanate was founded in the early sixteenth century, not the nineteenth century as we accidentally say.