The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Islam in Africa ;
v. 11. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| Item Description: | 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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| Physical Description: | vi, 165 p. : ill., map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index. |
| ISSN: | 1570-3754 ; |