ʿAbdallāh al-Taʿīshī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Kramer, Robert S.
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-Taʿīshī (1846-99) was ruler of the Mahdist state in Sudan from 1885 until the Anglo-Egyptian conquest in 1898. He was the successor to Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Mahdī. His name was pronounced ʿAbdullāhi and he was generally known as "al-Khalīfa" (from khalīfat al-mahdī , "successor to the Mahdī"). His family origins are obscure, though his grandfather ʿAlī al-Karrār likely migrated east from the central Sudanic region before marrying a woman of the Taʿāʾisha cattle-breeding Arabs (Baqqāra) of southern Darfur. His father, Muḥammad