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This booklet is the 1st research of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political standpoint that treats how relationships of authority have been enunciated via image and rite. The e-book makes a speciality of how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and supreme successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used symbols, rite and formality to articulate their strength, authority and legitimacy first in the context of resistance to the imperial Turco-Egyptian forces that were occupying the Nilotic Sudan considering 1821, after which in the context of building an Islamic country. This examine examines 5 key parts from a ancient point of view: the significance of Islamic mysticism as manifested in Sufi brotherhoods within the articulation of strength within the Sudan; rite as handmaids of strength and legitimacy; charismatic management; the routinization of aura and the formation of a non secular country purportedly dependent upon the 1st Islamic group within the 7th century C.E.
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Al-Qaddāl, Siyāsa al-iqtiṣādiyya li-l-dawla al-Mahdiyya: maṣādiruhā, mazāhiruhā: 1881–1898 (Khartoum: Dār Jāmīʿa al-Khartoum, 1986), 39. , 40. , 44. 42 Alice Moore-Harrell, Gordon and the Sudan, Prologue to the Mahdiyya 1877– 1880 (London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001), 181–5. 43 During a pilgrimage to Mecca, Ḥ amad alNahlan b. 44 He was a member of the Malāmatiyya, a Sufi order that deliberately engages in iconoclastic behavior from fear of the dangers of popularity. 45 Several followers, however, did not reject his claim, because, according to tradition, he traveled to Mecca and while there performed a miracle.
Protocol, ceremony, and symbols of authority 33 troops. 4 Muḥammad Aḥmad and his followers were successful in routing the Turkish forces with little loss. However, the number of his followers did not immediately increase due to this initial success. According to Slatin, this was because the local population was convinced that the Turco-Egyptian authorities would take strong measures to suppress the revolt, and could not risk the loss of life which they felt certain would ensue. Muḥammad Aḥmad was strongly encouraged by his secondin-command, ʿAbdallāhi, and his own brothers to flee Ābā Island.
At the end of his reign, the Khedive controlled the Red Sea regions of Sudanese territory and Egyptian forces were occupying areas of western Ethiopia, such as Massawa and Harar. The occupation of these territories led to a war with Ethiopia and ultimately the bankruptcy of Egypt, which gave the British government the pretext to depose Ismāʿīl and install his more pliant son, Muḥammad Tawfīq, as his successor. Causes of the Mahdist Revolt Despite the pressure the British government placed upon the Egyptian rulers to abolish it, the slave trade did not completely end.