| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 165 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Islam in Africa ; v. 11
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Islam in Africa ; v. 11.
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| Note |
This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used symbols, ceremony and ritual to articulate their power, authority and legitimacy first within the context of resistance to the imperial Turco-Egyptian forces that had been occupying the Nilotic Sudan since 1821, and then within the context of establishing an Islamic state. This study examines five key elements from a historical perspective: the importance of Islamic mysticism as manifested in Sufi brotherhoods in the articulation of power in the Sudan; ceremony as handmaids of power and legitimacy; charismatic leadership; the routinization of charisma and the formation of a religious state purportedly based upon the first Islamic community in the seventh century C.E. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sudan -- History -- 1881-1899.
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Sudan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1881-1899 |
| Subject |
Islamic renewal -- Sudan.
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Islamic renewal. |
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Islam and politics -- Sudan.
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Islam and politics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Searcy, Kim. Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state. Boston, Mass. ; Leiden : Brill, 2011 9789004185999 (DLC) 2010041727 (OCoLC)668403809 |
| ISBN |
9789004191075 (electronic book) |
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9004191070 (electronic book) |
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9789004185999 |
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9004185992 |
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