 Mahdist War

The Mahdist War ( "ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya"; 1881–99) was a war of the late 19th century between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain.Eighteen years of war resulted in the nominally joint-rule state of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899–1956), a "de jure" condominium of the British Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt in which Britain had "de facto" control over the Sudan.