The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state : ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 / / by Kim Searcy.
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,...
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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. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (174 p.) |
| 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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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / K. Searcy
- Introduction / K. Searcy
- Chapter One. Islam In The Sudan / K. Searcy
- Chapter Two. Protocol, Ceremony, And Symbols Of Authority / K. Searcy
- Chapter Three. The Charismatic Leader / K. Searcy
- Chapter Four. The Khalīfa and the Routinization of Charismatic Authority / K. Searcy
- Chapter Five. The Creation Of An Islamic State / K. Searcy
- Conclusion / K. Searcy
- Bibliography / K. Searcy
- Index / K. Searcy.