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

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Main Author: Searcy, Kim
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
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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245 1 4 |a The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state  |h [electronic resource] :  |b ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 /  |c by Kim Searcy. 
260 |a Leiden [The Netherlands] ;  |a Boston :  |b Brill,  |c 2011. 
300 |a vi, 165 p. :  |b ill., map. 
490 1 |a Islam in Africa,  |x 1570-3754 ;  |v v. 11 
500 |a 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. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction.  |b Palo Alto, Calif. :  |c ebrary,  |d 2013.  |n Available via World Wide Web.  |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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651 0 |a Sudan  |x History  |y 1821-1881. 
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