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Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mahdī
Hassan Ibrahim
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A Study of Neo-Mahdīsm in the Sudan, 1899-1956
出版BRILL, 2004-09-01
主題Social Science / Islamic Studies
ISBN90474141879789047414186
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6IZSEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This is a pioneering scholarly study of the colourful career of Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mahdī and his brainchild Neo-Mahdism. It explains his calculative strife to deal with the British onslaught on his father’s Mahdiyya, and to gradually attain the essence of its political and religious mission. The discourse contests the long held presumption of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān’s subservience to Britain, and portray’s him as the architect of national independence, and the Sudan’s most towering celebrity in the 20th century. It highlights al-Sayyid’s mastery of manipulation that perplexed, occasionally paralysed, British and Egyptian policy makers, and explores his attempts to establish an inclusive religious and political system. The book is important to scholars of Africa, the Middle East and Islamic revivalism. It may trigger revisits to similar leaders whose images could have likewise been unfairly tarnished.