300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
299 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Mahdia was an important Islamic millenarian movement of the Nilotic Sudan in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It contributed substantially to the emergence of the Sudan as a nation-state in the twentieth century. The Mahdi's family and heritage played a major political and cultural role in the Sudan, both before and after independence.This volume begins with introductory... Read more
The S?ra of the Mahdi; Explanatory Notes; Preface 1 : The Book of the Bliss of Him Who Seeks Guidance by the Life of the Imam the Mahdi; Introduction; 1: The Fulfillment of the Traditions in Respect of the Mahdi's Characteristics and Perfection 1; 2: The Mahdi's Characteristics, Attributes and Miracles 1; 3: The Mahdi's Religious Observances Before His Manifestation 1; 4: The Mahdi's Propaganda and Correspondence 1; 5: The Mustering of the Tribes and the Arrival of Successive Deputations to the Mahdi 1; 6: The Mahdi's First Battle With the Turks and His Victory Over Them 1; 7: The Mahdi's Hijra to Qad?r and His Jih?D, Before the Fall of El Obeid 1; 8: The Mahdi's Campaigns, Expeditions and Missions, And the Conquest of Some Towns 1; 9: The Mahdi's Death and the Accession of the Khalifa 1
Biography
Haim Shaked
