The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state : ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 / / by Kim Searcy.
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Superior document: | Islam in Africa, v. 11 |
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Islam in Africa ;
v. 11. |
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Physical Description: | vi, 165 p. :; ill., map. |
Notes: | 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. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index. |
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ISBN: | 9789004185999 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789004191075 (electronic bk.) |
ISSN: | 1570-3754 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | by Kim Searcy. |