@article{701569,
      recid = {701569},
      author = {Searcy, Kim.},
      title = {The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state ceremony and  symbols of authority : 1882-1898 / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Brill,},
      address = {Leiden [The Netherlands] ;},
      pages = {vi, 165 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/701569},
}