OMDURMAN

ŏmdərmänˈ, Arab. Umm Durman, city (1993 pop. 1,271,403), central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum. It is the largest city and chief commercial center of Sudan and part of a tri-city metropolitan area (with Khartoum and Khartoum North) that forms the country's industrial and cultural heart. Industries include leather tanning and furniture and pottery making. In 1884 the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad made his military headquarters at the village of Omdurman. After the Mahdist forces destroyed Khartoum (1885), the Mahdi's successor, Khalifa Addallah, made Omdurman his capital, and the city grew rapidly as the site of the Mahdi's tomb. The battle of Karari, which took place (1898) near Omdurman, marked the defeat of the Mahdist state in Sudan by the Anglo-Egyptian army of Lord Kitchener. Although most of the city was destroyed after the battle, the Mahdi's tomb has been restored and embellished. The Khalifa's former residence is now a museum.

See P. Ziegler, Omdurman (1974).

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The Victorian Soldier in Africa
Book by Edward M. Spiers; Manchester University Press, 2004
Subjects: Africa--History, Military--19th Century, Great Britain--Army, Great Britain--Army--History--19th Century, Great Britain--History
Omdurman Fight', Yorkshire Post, 5 October 1898, p. 5. 87 'A Letter from Omdurman to Alnwick', Alnwick and County Gazette...Barracks ', p. 2; see also 'The Battle of Omdurman', p. 4; Harris, 'Nile Expedition of 1898...
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From Madina to Metropolis: Heritage and Change in the Near Eastern City
Book by L.. Carl Brown; Darwin Press, 1973
Subjects: Cities And Towns--Middle East
...this respect of the country as a whole and Omdurman. Clearly, the socio-economic changes in Omdurman are not exactly revolutionary. The proportion...groups: 21 Percentage Employed in Sudan Omdurman Males: 5 and over to under puberty 52...
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Middle East Contemporary Survey: 1993 - Vol. 17
Book by Ami Ayalon; Westview Press, 1995
126. R. Omdurman, 18 May DR, 19 May 1993. 127. Al...of culture and information. 147. R. Omdurman, 14 November; R. Tehran, 16 November...quoting SUNA. 153. AFP, 5 December; R. Omdurman, 5 December SWB, 7 December 1993...
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World and Its Peoples: Middle East, Western Asia and Northern Africa - Vol. 10
Includes: Chad; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Sudan
Book by Marshall Cavendish; Marshall Cavendish, 2006
Subjects: Chad--Geography, Mali--Geography, Mauritania--Geography, Niger--Geography, Sudan--Geography
...one city but three: Khartoum proper, Omdurman (the nations largest city and its legislative...olten poor. housing predominates. OMDURMAN The largest pdrtner in thetri-city...Islomic theocratic state in Sudan-made Omdurman his capital. Ihc Mahdis tOlllb, with...
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The Sudan's Path to Independence
Book by J. S. R. Duncan; W. Blackwood, 1957
Subjects: Sudan--Politics And Government
...Ironwork, woodwork, and materials of value were to be transported to Omdurman for building there. This was done. The word " Omdurman" had a long history. "Omdurman" was the daughter of a king of the Anak Kingdom centuries ago and "Durman...
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journal articles on: Omdurman  - 52 results

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State Violence against Women: a Current Perspective from the Sudan
Journal article by Azza Eltigani, Mohamed Khaled; Resources for Feminist Research, Vol. 26, 1998
Subjects: Africa, Omdurman Centre for Women's Studies, Rights, Sudan, Violence against women, Women
...by Azza Eltigani , Mohamed Khaled The Omdurman Centre for Womens Studies is primarily...democratic reform occurs in the country. Omdurman is the historical national capital of...environment. Other areas of concern to the Omdurman Centre for Womens Studies include the...
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"Transborder" Exchanges of People, Things, and Representations: Revisiting the Conflict between Mahdist Sudan and Christian Ethiopia, 1885-1889*
Journal article by Iris Seri-Hersch; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 43, 2010
Subjects: Colonies & territories, Military history, Religion
...chains and sent to the Mahdist capital of Omdurman. The emir justified his act by accusing...Ethiopian heads that were cut off and sent to Omdurman. The Khalifa exhibited the heads of...dispatch of twelve Ethiopian heads to Omdurman. At the battle of Gallabat (9 March...
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The Khalifa and the Routinization of Charismatic Authority
Journal article by Kim Searcy; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 43, 2010
Subjects: Famine, Islam, Leadership, Religious orders
...unchallenged authority was to designate Omdurman as Buqcat al-Mahdi (The Mahdis Place...nascent state. Prior to the Mahdiyya, Omdurman was little more than a place across the...people that occupied the region.34 Omdurman, as the Mahdis city, was fashioned...
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The Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories in Khartoum (1903-1934): an Experiment in Development
Journal article by Ahmed Awad Abdel-Hameed; Medical History, Vol. 41, 1997
Subjects: A Balfour, A J Chalmers, R G Archibald
...to visit the Sudan after the battle of Omdurman. The trip left a very strong impression...special Sudanese inspector. The town of Omdurman was never included by Balfour in these...continuing to ignore completely the town of Omdurman on the west bank of the White Nile although...
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Do Victims of War Need International Law? Human Rights Education Programs in Authoritarian Sudan
Journal article by Mark Fathi Massoud; Law & Society Review, Vol. 45, 2011
Subjects: Civil war, Colonialism, Field study, Human rights, Humanitarian aid, Nonviolence, Political activism, Research & development--R&D, Theory, United Nations--UN
...health care worker, desert camp near Omdurman, June 2005). She sighed and broke...Interview, Salma, displaced woman, near Omdurman, June 2005). In other words, if you...displaced woman, squatter area near Omdurman, June 2005). First, legal awareness...
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Battle of Omdurman: September 2nd, 1898
Magazine article by David Shonfeld; History Today, Vol. 48, September 1998
Subjects: Massacres--Sudan, Omdurman, Battle of, 1898--History, Sudan--History
Battle of Omdurman: September 2nd, 1898 by David Shonfeld...OF Sudanese Dervishes on a plain near Omdurman in the Sudan was an occasion that a new...intentions, had assembled a large army near Omdurman, since 1885 the Mahdist capital, across...
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The Burdens of Empire
Magazine article by Keith Windschuttle; New Criterion, Vol. 22, September 2003
Subjects: Omdurman, Sudan--History
...Windschuttle On September 2, 1898 at Omdurman on the banks of the Nile just south of...were dead. Kitcheners expedition to Omdurman had been in retaliation for the death...from the Cape to Cairo. The Battle of Omdurman was not unique. It was largely a repetition...
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Gunboats on the Nile
Magazine article by Emory F. Nolan; Sea Classics, Vol. 37, April 2004
...a most critical time in the Battle of Omdurman, three British gunboats had altered...events leading to the climatic Battle of Omdurman - a battle that pitted the largest and...the Nile to a new capital, the city of Omdurman. Less than six months after his defeat...
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Youth Culture and War: Propaganda - What Can We Learn from the Last Century?
Magazine article by Stephen Dale; Our Schools, Our Selves, Vol. 17, Winter 2008
Subjects: Books, Canada, Perceptions, World War I, Youth culture
...in pen and ink. One installment, "Omdurman, and the fall of Khalifa," is graced...This is meant to depict the battle of Omdurman of 1897, the "last and greatest feature...boys magazine finds in the battle of Omdurman proof of the peace-loving and compassionate...
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Mauritius Leads but Kenya Shows Strength in Depth
Magazine article; African Business, October 2007
Subjects: Banking industry--Rankings
...55m, being overtaken in the process by Omdurman National Bank, with of a rise from...Mauritius Jun-05 Mauritius Ltd 9 74 Omdurman National Bank Dec-05 Sudan <br/ 10...Bank of Mauritius 60 247 24.3 Ltd 9 74 Omdurman National Bank 58 2,184 2.6 <br...
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It Celebrates the Exploits of One of Scotland's Most Decorated Soldiers. So Should Police Really Be Investigating Whether This Painting Is Racist? Row: Mr Allison, Right, Says a Painting of Sudanese Killed by Sir Hector, Top, Is Racist
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 17, 2008
Subjects: Soldiers
...Dingwall museum, depicts the 1898Battle of Omdurman, where Sir Hector refused to retreat...Africa. Sir Hectors finest hour came at Omdurman in the Sudan, where the Britishclashed...Britishtroops up the Nile to capture the city of Omdurman. The attack was short-lived and after...
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Jailed Gillian Faces Khartoum Hell-Hole
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), November 30, 2007
...Sudans biggest prison. Conditions in Omdurman womens prison, across the River Nile...announced the release of most of the women in Omdurman womens prison, in a manner suggesting...outside the prison. ORDEAL: Women at the Omdurman prison; PRISON: Gillian Gibbon, jailed...
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[Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; May 5, 2010
...last ever cavalry charge by the British army at the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan in 1898. The next year, Churchill was captured...tropical uniform as he would have appeared at the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan. He said facing a force of 40,000 men as he...
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Britain's Warlord Did Have a Human Face ..
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 16, 2011
...characterisation of the massive defeat of the Mahdi Army at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 as a war crime is ridiculous and takes no account of...created laws which protected Islam. Inset: The Battle of Omdurman Pictures: TIME LIFE PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES Inset: ALAMY
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15 DAYS IN HELL; (1) Gillian Gibbons: Guilty of 'Insulting Islam'
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 30, 2007
Subjects: Gibbons, Gillian, Islam
...Sudanjail. Gillian Gibbons will be incarcerated at the squalid Omdurman womens prison inKhartoum, which is massively overcrowded and...harsher, but thats not exactly apositive thing at all. The Omdurman prison where Mrs Gibbon will be locked upwas built for 200...
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Omdurman
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OMDURMAN omd rman , Arab. Umm Durman, city...military headquarters at the village of Omdurman. After the Mahdist forces destroyed Khartoum...Mahdis successor, Khalifa Addallah, made Omdurman his capital, and the city grew rapidly...
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Sudan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...northwest. Khartoum is the capital and Omdurman is the largest city. Land The main geographical...Ubayyid , and the conurbation of Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North. The desert and...Darfurian rebels mounted an attack against Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, in...
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Mahdi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...unbelievers. His followers, known as Mahdists, for a time made pilgrimages to his tomb at Omdurman. The final defeat of the Mahdists in 1898 at Omdurman by an Anglo-Egyptian army under Lord Kitchener gave Great Britain control of Sudan. See...
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Khartoum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Polytechnic. The citys Sudan National Museum has important archaeological holdings. Bridges link Khartoum with Khartoum North and Omdurman. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer , British Statesman, Soldier, and Author
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...he saw his first military action in Cuba as a reporter for Londons Daily Graphic. He served in India and in 1898 fought at Omdurman in Sudan under Kitchener . Having resigned his commission, he was sent (1899) to cover the South African War by the Morning...
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