The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state
Searcy, Kim.
The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 / [electronic resource] : by Kim Searcy. - Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011. - vi, 165 p. : ill., map. - Islam in Africa, v. 11 1570-3754 ; . - Islam in Africa ; v. 11. .
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Islamic renewal--Sudan.
Islam and politics--Sudan.
Sudan--History--1821-1881.
Electronic books.
DT156.5 / .S43 2011eb
962.4/03
The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 / [electronic resource] : by Kim Searcy. - Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011. - vi, 165 p. : ill., map. - Islam in Africa, v. 11 1570-3754 ; . - Islam in Africa ; v. 11. .
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Islamic renewal--Sudan.
Islam and politics--Sudan.
Sudan--History--1821-1881.
Electronic books.
DT156.5 / .S43 2011eb
962.4/03