Member Profile Total number of comments: 1 (since 2014-06-30 19:49:53) Jeffrey Sachs Showing comments 1 - 1Page: 1 The Debacle of the Caliphates: Why al-Baghdadi's Grandiosity doesn't Matter Jeffrey Sachs 06/30/2014 at 1:00 pm A quick correction to an otherwise excellent post: The British did not kill the Sudanese Mahdi. He died of natural causes in 1885, and was succeeded (following a brief interregnum) by the "Khalifa". He's the one the British killed in 1898. Showing comments 1 - 1Page: 1 TweetShareRedditEmail
A quick correction to an otherwise excellent post: The British did not kill the Sudanese Mahdi. He died of natural causes in 1885, and was succeeded (following a brief interregnum) by the "Khalifa". He's the one the British killed in 1898.