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 -