The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 /

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1. Verfasser: Searcy, Kim
Körperschaft: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:Islam in Africa ; v. 11.
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Beschreibung: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.
Beschreibung:vi, 165 p. : ill., map.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index.
ISSN:1570-3754 ;