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unusual facts about Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi



Alids

Genealogoical chart of the descent from the Prophet of the Idrisid dynasty, rulers of Fez and Morocco, Kings of Tunis, and the Senussi dynasty, founders and heads of the Libyan Senussi Order and Kings of Libya are also descended from the other brother Hasan ibn Ali through Al Hassan Addakhil.

Mohammed Abdullah al-Senussi

Mohammed Abdullah Senussi was the son of former Libyan Intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi.

Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi

The traders and their caravans took Senussi Islam to remote areas, such as the Darfur and Kanem Regions, beyond Saharan North Africa.

Under the leadership of Al-Mahdi, the Senussi order arrived at the height of their influence and spread, building their Zaouias where water and pasture were available, and spreading south to the Ouaddaï Region and Lake Chad.

Ordnance QF 15-pounder

The gun was used by Royal Horse Artillery batteries of Territorial Force cavalry units (Yeomanry) early in World War I, most notably in the campaign in Egypt against the Senussi by A Battery, Honourable Artillery Company and the Nottinghamshire RHA.

Play Dirty

So Douglas departs on what first seems like a fantasy adventure when he is taken to a Senussi cafe, which is a front for Masters HQ, there Douglas bumps into Cyril Leech.

Political aspects of Islam

Examples include Abd al-Qadir in Algeria, the Mahdi in Sudan, Shamil in the Caucasus, the Senussi in Libya and in Chad, Mullah-i Lang in Afghanistan, the Akhund of Swat in India, and later, Abd al-Karim in Morocco.

Rabih az-Zubayr

He started confronting the British in 1896 and the following year even started marching on Kano, while his vassal Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi founded a fortified capital, Ndele, between Bahr Aouk and the Ubangi River, which he held until 1911.


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