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Author Searcy, Kim.

Title The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state [electronic resource] : ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 / by Kim Searcy.

Imprint Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description vi, 165 p. : ill., map.
Series Islam in Africa, 1570-3754 ; v. 11
Islam in Africa ; v. 11.
Note 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Islamic renewal -- Sudan.
Islam and politics -- Sudan.
Sudan -- History -- 1821-1881.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004185999 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004191075 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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