TY  - GEN
AU  - Searcy, Kim.
CN  - DT156.5
CY  - Leiden [The Netherlands] ;
CY  - Boston :
DA  - 2011.
ID  - 701569
KW  - Islamic renewal
KW  - Islam and politics
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10470506
N1  - 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.
PB  - Brill,
PP  - Leiden [The Netherlands] ;
PP  - Boston :
PY  - 2011.
T1  - The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist stateceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 /
TI  - The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist stateceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10470506
VL  - v. 11
ER  -