So much for all that "praying in the Mosques of Damascas, Cairo, Constantinopal, etc" .
they didn't do much after Khartoum
. Terrorized and enslaved their own people, menaced neighbors, talked a lot of trash. Then, after finally. Provoking a British invasion, they get whipped so bad, they moved to the Philippines, and were then known as "Manilla Folders".
Maybe the kaliffa wasn't as. Ambitious as the Mahdi?