 Throughout history, various individuals have claimed to be or were proclaimed to be the Mahdi.These have included Muhammad Jaunpuri, founder of the Mahdavia sect; the Báb (Siyyid Ali Muhammad), founder of Bábism; Muhammad Ahmad, who established the Mahdist State in Sudan in the late 19th century; Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement;, Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, and Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam.Shi'ites have alternate views on which descendant of the Islamic "Nabi" (Prophet) Muhammad is the Mahdi.