TY  - BOOK
AU  - Searcy,Kim
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state: ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 
T2  - Islam in Africa,
AV  - DT156.5 .S43 2011eb
U1  - 962.4/03 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden [The Netherlands], Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Islamic renewal
KW  - Sudan
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - History
KW  - 1821-1881
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10470506
ER  -