al-ʿUrwat al-wuthqa

…ʿAbduh, published an anti-British newspaper, Al-ʿUrwat al-wuthqā (“The Indissoluble Link”), which claimed (falsely) to be in touch with and have influence over the Sudanese Mahdī, a messianic bearer of justice and equality expected by some Muslims in the last days. He also engaged Ernest Renan, the French historian and philosopher,…