The policy of the British in the land of the Mahdi. The Mahdi and his followers cut off the lines of communication, and sought the Sultan of Darfur for help, but he did not help them. They then attacked and defeated them in 1881. Abdullah al-Ta'alashi, who killed him, and this Abdullah was the one who became the Khalifa.

The Egyptian army fought him and he fled from Omdurman, but the Egyptian army caught up with him and killed him in 1898. The Mahdi and his companions.

When they realized their defeat, they surrendered and waited for death, which was not far from them, but came to them quickly.

After the conquest of Kordofan, Al-Zubair sent to Ismail Pasha Abu, the Governor-General of Sudan, asking him to send someone to take over the country. The reply from him was that the Khedive had promoted him to the rank of second lieutenant and appointed him to rule the country for 10,000 pounds a year.

Then there were wars between him and the Sultan of Darfur, and he was victorious.

The sons of the Sultans of Darfur were sent to Egypt. Then a dispute arose between the Governor-General of Sudan and the Egyptian army in the war with Russia. In 1882, Al-Zubair was appointed Governor-General of Sudan.

During that time, his son Salman revolted against the government, so Gordon sent a detachment to fight him, and he was killed. In 1884, Salman was appointed to fight him in Tokar. After the Sudanese were defeated, it was decided that he would be under the command of Baker Pasha. Gordon summoned him to take over the Sudanese territories as ordered by Farqash. In 1884, he was exiled to Jebel Tariq with a pension of 100 pounds a month. The British insulted him by calling him a traitor. In 1885, he corresponded with the Mahdi and remained there. He was later released by the government and given a pension until his death. His pension was 1,000 pounds. In 1882, he bought a property worth 1,000 pounds.

After the restoration of Sudan, many of the former landowners were reinstated.