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.
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Islamic - renewalSudan.
موضوع مستند نشده
Islam and politics - Sudan.
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Sudan - History, 1862-1899.
بدون عنوان
0
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
DT156
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5
نشانه اثر
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S43
2011
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )