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- Title
Islah and Tajdid--the case of the Sudanese Mahdiyya 1881-1898.
- Authors
Ibrahim, Hassan Ahmed; Zein, Ibrahim M.
- Abstract
Presents a critique of the Sudanese Mahdiyya. Belief in a `deliverer'; Claim made by Muhammad Ahmed Ibn Abdullah of the Mahdiyya in 1881; Shii concept of infallibility; Exploitation of Mahdiyya to rally support; Degeneration into traditional Muslim monarchy; Disastrous foreign policy; Undermining of economic and political reconstruction of the Mahdist state.
- Subjects
SUDAN; MAHDISM; RELIGIOUS life
- Publication
Muslim World, 1997, Vol 87, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
0027-4909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1478-1913.1997.tb02739.x