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Khartoum

الخرطوم

Capital city of Sudan.

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Egypt & Nile
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Birthplace of
Rabih az-Zubayr
Site of
Battle of Abu Klea· Siege of Khartoum

People and things also explored

Muhammad Ahmad· Kousséri· Battle of Abu Klea· Siege of Khartoum· Rabih az-Zubayr

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islam.museum contributors. “Khartoum”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/khartoum/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Muhammad Ahmad

Sudanese religious and political leader (1844–1885) and a sheikh of the Sammaniyya Sufi order. In 1881 he proclaimed himself the Mahdi — a claim his followers, the Ansar, believed and many scholars of his day rejected — and led the revolt that overthrew Turco-Egyptian rule in Sudan, took Khartoum in 1885 and founded the Mahdist State with its capital at Omdurman. He died of typhus five months after Khartoum fell.