UMMAH-ANSAR
The Sudanese Ummah (“community”) Party was formed in February 1945 by proindependence nationalists, most of whom were supporters of Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, the posthumous son of Muhammad Ahmad ibn `Abd Allah (d. 1885) who founded the Mahdist movement in that country. The nearly 4 million followers of this movement, known as Ansar, constitute the
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