Osama bin laden's forerunner.(Egyptian Mahdi)

From: World and I | Date: June 1, 2002| Author: McDonald, W. Wesley | Copyright information

W. Wesley McDonald is a professor of history at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

Before Osama bin Laden, it might be argued, there was the Mahdi. Over 120 years ago, a messianic leader united the tribes of the Sudan in a bloody revolt against their Turkish-Egyptian masters. Proclaiming that Islam had been corrupted and defiled by "foreigners," this Islamic warrior declared a jihad against the "outsiders." For a time, he astonished the world as his fo...

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