The First Jihad: The Battle for Khartoum and the Dawn of Militant Islam by Daniel Allen Butler

The First Jihad: The Battle for Khartoum and the Dawn of Militant Islam

Daniel Allen Butler

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Before there was Osama bin Laden, Abu al-Zarqawi or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi--the "Expected One"--who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in the late 19th-century Sudan.Born on the Nile in 1844, Muha...

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