Case file · Folklore / legend
The Mahdi's visions on Aba Island
In June 1881 the Sudanese Sufi Muhammad Ahmad, living on Aba Island in the White Nile, announced that the Prophet had appeared to him in visions and named him the Mahdi.
1881 CE · 13.37, 32.62 · status: official
The account
His movement destroyed Egyptian forces, took Khartoum in January 1885 and killed General Gordon. His tomb in Omdurman remains a pilgrimage site.