RT Book
T1 The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state: ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898
T2 Islam in Africa
JF Islam in Africa
A2 Searcy, Kim
LA English
PP Boston, Mass Leiden
PB Brill
YR 2011
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1655006940
AB Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One Islam in the Sudan; Chapter Two Protocol, Ceremony, and Symbols of Authority; Chapter Three The Charismatic Leader; Chapter Four The Khalifa and the Routinization of Charismatic Authority; Chapter Five The Creation of an Islamic State; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
AB 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 eleme
NO 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. - Description based on print version record
CN DT156.5
SN 9789004191075
SN 9004191070
K1 Islamic renewal : Sudan
K1 Islam and politics : Sudan
K1 Sudan : History : 1862-1899
K1 History
K1 Islam and politics
K1 Islamic renewal
K1 Sudan : History : 1881-1899 : Sudan
K1 Sudan : History : 1881-1899
K1 Sudan
K1 Electronic books : History