title: Mahdist
text: # Mahdist
  
  Mahdist or Mahdism may refer to:
  
  * Mahdist (follower), in the context of the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam
  * Mahdist State, or Mahdist Sudan, a state based on a religious and political movement launched in 1881 by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah (later Muhammad al-Mahdi)
  * Mahdist War, the 1881–99 war between the Mahdist Sudanese and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt
  