he created the dervish state an early th century state that resisted against the british italians french and ethiopians the dervish forces successfully repulsed the british empire in four military expeditions and forced it to retreat to the coastal region encyclopedia of african history page as a result of its fame in the middle east and europe the dervish state was recognized as an ally by the ottoman empire and the german empire the state succeeded to outlive the scramble for africa and remained throughout word war i the only independent muslim power in africajihad in the arabian sea camille pecastaing in the land of the mad mullah somalia this is the disputed part now tell me what in here is in contrast with the 'concensus' and at the first place what do you think the concensus was