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he Ansar (Arabic: أنصار), or followers of the Mahdi, is a Sufi religious movement in the Sudan whose followers are disciples of Muhammad Ahmad (12 August 1844 22 June 1885), the selfproclaimed Mahdi. Northern Sudan has long been inhabited by Arabicspeaking people who farm the Nile valley and follow a nomadic pastoral way of life elsewhere. Sudan came under Egyptian suzerainty when an Ottoman force conquered and occupied the region in 182021. Muhammed Ahmad, a Sudanese religious leader based on Aba Island, proclaimed himself Mahdi on 29 June 1881. His followers won a series of victories against the Egyptians culminating in the capture of Kartoum in January 1885. Muhammed Ahmad died a few months later, but his successor the Khalifa Abd Allah ibn Muhammad maintained the independence of the Mahdist state until 1898, when an AngloEgyptian force regained control. The Mahdi s eldest surviving son Abd alRahman alMahdi was the religious and political leader of the An
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