Richard Leslie Hill
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Professor of History, Abdullahi Bayero College, Ahmadu Bello University, Kano, Nigeria, 1968β69. Lecturer in Modern Near Eastern History, University of Durham, England, 1949β66. Author of The Europeans in Sudan, 1834β78 and others.
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Al-MahdΔ« was the creator of a vast Islamic state extending from the Red Sea to Central Africa and founder of a movement that remained influential in Sudan a century later. As a youth he moved from orthodox religious study to a mystical interpretation of Islam. In 1881 he proclaimed his divineβ¦
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