The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state (Record no. 214798)
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| fixed length control field | 02433nam a2200373 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 962.4/03 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Searcy, Kim. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Leiden [The Netherlands] ; |
| -- | Boston : |
| Name of publisher | Brill, |
| Year of publication | 2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | vi, 165 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., map. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Islam in Africa, |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Islamic renewal |
| Topical Term | Islam and politics |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10470506 |
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