What are the similarities and differences between the Taliban of Afghanistan/Pakistan today and the Mahdists of Sudan 130 years ago? The Taliban and the Mahdi purposes are to establish fundamental religious foundations for Sudan or the Islamic state. The Taliban emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The Taliban's promise in Pashtun areas surrounding Pakistan and Afghanistan was to restore peace and security and enforce their own version of Islamic law, once in power. The Mahdi rose up against colonial powers and preached pure islam. Sudan at the time (Before Mahdi rose to power) was a dependency of Egypt, which itself was a province of the Ottoman empire. Al Mahdi unified
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Both the Taliban and the Sudanese started off with successes, the Taliban defeated the Russians in Afghanistan and the Sudanese Mahdi defeated colonial powers in Sudan and Egypt. They both promised reforms in Islam, but both failed to deliver that to the peoples. Despite some similarities, they were also different…… in some ways…..
What events led to the division of Sudan into two countries in 2011? How was imperialism related to this event? “South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011 as the outcome of a 2005 peace deal that ended Africa's longest-running civil war. A overwhelming majority of South Sudanese voted in January 2011 to secede and become Africa's first new country since”.- BBC news A majority of south sudanese voted to secede from north sudan in 2011 after a series of conflict that was left by the British imperialization of sudan. Sudan prepared to gain independence from British and Egyptian rule in 1956, but southern Sudan leaders were accused of cooperating, or creating a federal system of trying to impose Islamic, Arab identities, and in 1955, South Sudan army officers mutined and started a civil war between the North and the South. They were lead by the Sudanese government, or north
Both the Taliban and the Sudanese started off with successes, the Taliban defeated the Russians in Afghanistan and the Sudanese Mahdi defeated colonial powers in Sudan and Egypt. They both promised reforms in Islam, but both failed to deliver that to the peoples. Despite some similarities, they were also different…… in some ways…..
What events led to the division of Sudan into two countries in 2011? How was imperialism related to this event? “South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011 as the outcome of a 2005 peace deal that ended Africa's longest-running civil war. A overwhelming majority of South Sudanese voted in January 2011 to secede and become Africa's first new country since”.- BBC news A majority of south sudanese voted to secede from north sudan in 2011 after a series of conflict that was left by the British imperialization of sudan. Sudan prepared to gain independence from British and Egyptian rule in 1956, but southern Sudan leaders were accused of cooperating, or creating a federal system of trying to impose Islamic, Arab identities, and in 1955, South Sudan army officers mutined and started a civil war between the North and the South. They were lead by the Sudanese government, or north