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Books on: mahdists

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1.

The Southern Sudan, 1883-1898: A Struggle for Control

Book by Robert O. Collins; Yale University Press, 1962

Subjects:

Mahdi, Sudan--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Fad l al-Mula and the Mahdists, 1889-1891 80...THE DEFEAT OF THE MAHDISTS 156...Bah r al-G + h + azal to whom the Mahdists preached rebellion. The first was composed...
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Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads, and Osama Bin Laden

Book by Timothy R. Furnish; Praeger, 2005

Subjects:

Islam--21st Century, Islamic Fundamentalism, Jihad, Mahdism--History Of Doctrines, Terrorism--Religious Aspects--Islam, War--Religious Aspects--Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...87 Chapter 5 Modern Muslim Anti-Mahdists 130 Chapter 6 Conclusion: Who Will...those on the peripheries, especially Mahdists. Every subsequent Mahdist movement...discontent. SAYYID MUHAMMAD JAWNPURIS INDIAN MAHDISTS, FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES...
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The Transformation of East Africa: Studies in Political Anthropology

Book by Stanley Diamond, Fred G. Burke; Basic Books, 1966

Subjects:

Africa, East

Collections: History, Entire Library
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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

Collections: History, Entire Library

...20 2 Campaigning in southern Africa 35 3 Battling the Boers 59 4 Intervention in Egypt 77 5 Engaging the Mahdists 99 6 The Gordon relief expedition 112 7 Trekking through Bechuanaland 132 8 Reconquering the Sudan 137...
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Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition around an East African Lake

Book by Pascal James Imperato; Westview Press, 1998

Subjects:

Ethiopia--Foreign relations--Great Britain, Great Britain--Foreign relations--Ethiopia, Rudolf, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia)--Discovery and exploration--European, Rudolf, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia)--Politics and government

Collections: History, Entire Library

In this fascinating story of colonial competition around Lake Rudolf, a remote body of water in northern Kenya, Pascal James Imperato examines the political & diplomatic aspects of colonial competition for the lake as well as the many expeditions that traveled there. Although the chief competitors ...
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In this fascinating story of colonial competition around Lake Rudolf, a remote body of water in northern Kenya, Pascal James Imperato examines the political & diplomatic aspects of colonial competition for the lake as well as the many expeditions that traveled there. Although the chief competitors for the lake included the British, Italians, the French, Russians, & Ethiopians, its colonial fate was decided by Great Britain & Ethiopia. The role of Ethiopia as a late nineteenth-century colonial power unfolds as Imperato provides unique insights & analyses of Ethiopian colonial policy & its effects on the peoples who inhabited the region of the lake.
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Journal Articles on: mahdists

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1.

A Pan-African Composer? Coleridge-Taylor and Africa

Journal article by Paul Richards; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 21, 2001

Subjects:

African music--Influence, Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel--Works, Composers--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...British-led forces in Egypt, Sir Herbert Kitchener, defeated the Mahdists at Omdurman on September 2, 1898. Tory prime minister Lord...from Khartoum shortly before the city was surrounded by the Mahdists. The annotations reached the Catholic Elgars priest, who transcribed...
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Imperialism & the Roots of the Great War

Journal article by Henk Wesseling; Daedalus, Vol. 134, 2005

Subjects:

Imperialism--History, Imperialism--International aspects, Imperialism--Military aspects, Imperialism--Observations, War casualties--International aspects, War casualties--Military aspects, War casualties--Observations, War casualties--Statistics, War--Casualties, War--International aspects, War--Military aspects, War--Observations, War--Statistics

Collections: Entire Library

...These are four British wars (against the Zulus, against the Mahdists, the Second British-Afghan War, and the Boer War in South Africa...This was an understatement: by 11:30 a.m., nearly 11,000 Mahdists had been killed and another 16,000 wounded. In contrast, the...
3.

Horn of Africa

Journal article by T. A. Barringer; Africa, 1998

Subjects:

Africa--Bibliography

Collections: Entire Library

...1998 250-272 1276 Herbert, E., The Last of the Mahdists, Soldiers of the queen, 94, 1998 32-34...
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British Responses to Mahdist and Other Unrest in North and West Africa, 1919-1930 *

Journal article by John Fisher; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 52, 2006

Subjects:

Africa--Political aspects, British imperialism--Research, United Kingdom--Foreign policy, United Kingdom--Military policy, World politics--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...years perceptions of Soviet involvement lacked consistency. There were recurring fears of Soviet propaganda aimed at Sudanese Mahdists, as well as reports, generally unconfirmed, of a "Wafd-Bolshevist coalition", which was targeting the Sudan. Yet there was...
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Horn of Africa

Journal article; Africa, Vol. 74, 2004

Collections: Entire Library

...the Sudan, with associated papers, 1884-1885. Leeds Peregrine Books 2003 152 pp. History, C20th 1643 Ibrahim, H.A., The Neo-Mahdists and the British, 1944-47: from tactical co-operation to short-lived confrontation. Middle Eastern studies 38 3 2002 47-72...

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Magazine Articles on: mahdists

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Osama Bin Laden's Forerunner

Magazine article by W. Wesley Mcdonald; World and I, Vol. 17, June 2002

Subjects:

Colonies, Egypt--History, Egyptian history, Islam--Political aspects, Military history--Religious aspects, National liberation movements

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...presuming that he intended "to smash the Mahdists" instead of evacuating the Sudan as he...personality to subdue the vast hordes of Mahdists, was convinced that if anyone could pull...battle lasting only a few hours, the Mahdists breeched the city and poured through...
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Steaming through Africa

Magazine article by Sarah Searight; History Today, Vol. 48, July 1998

Subjects:

Imperialism--Military aspects, Military communications--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...defeat of the Anglo-Egyptian force by the Mahdists in 1883, leading to General Gordons death...1887-89 to `rescue Emin Pasha from the Mahdists, again financed by Leopold and seen by...possible alliance between Menelik and the Mahdists, the British began to contemplate a return...
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Brutality, Starvation and Cannibalism, I Presume

Magazine article by Andy Smith; Geographical, Vol. 78, January 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Last Expedition: Stanley's Fatal Journey Through the Congo (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...and Charlie Pearson Portrait, hb, pp356, 17.99 pounds sterling The murder of General Gordon and the fall of Khartoum to the Mahdists--Islamist radicals on a par with Al-Qaeda--sent shockwaves around the world in 1885. The Gordon relief expedition failed only...
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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

Collections: History, Entire Library

...wounded. The Anglo-Egyptian losses numbered only 500 (dead and wounded). Perhaps to avenge Gordons death at the hands of the Mahdists, Kitchener left the wounded enemy to die on the plain and later, after triumphantly entering Khartoum, he looted the city and...
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Sudan: Past and Present

Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 277, November 2000

Subjects:

Ambassadors--Personal narratives, Colonies--Sudan, Diplomats--Personal narratives, International relations--Management, Middle East--Foreign relations, Sudan--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Nimeiri had proclaimed an unified Islamic state in 1983 (abrogating the 1972 agreement), and in the nineteenth century the Mahdists had swept all before them. Politics in Sudan is dominated by religious sects, the two most important of which, the al Mahdi...

Newspaper Articles on: mahdists

5 results

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Arming against Iran

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 2, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...al-Sadr appeared poised to take control of the key Iraqi city of Basra in the wake of a British pullback. And attacks by the Mahdists on rival Shiite groups in Karbala took more than 50 lives during a major religious festival. Sheik al-Sadr plans to strengthen...
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The Fall of Coral City

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 14, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...location was that traders were protected fromraids by the nomadic mainland Arabs. The citys demise resulted from the defeat of the Mahdists by Sudans Britishcolonial rulers at the end of the 19th century. The administration required a harbour more suitable than Suakin...
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Mad about the Mahdi

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 23, 2006

Subjects:

Peacekeeping forces, Soldiers, United Nations. Security Council

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...also filled with examples of fanatics defeated by those not intimidated by their violent delusions. When Kitchener crushed the Mahdists in the Sudan, most of his soldiers were Muslims who were not taken in by the radical creed. That same kind of coalition must...
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The Fall of Coral City; Deserted: The Coral Buildings of the Port City of Suakin in Sudan Have Been Left to Crumble

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 14, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...location was that traders were protected fromraids by the nomadic mainland Arabs. The citys demise resulted from the defeat of the Mahdists by Sudans Britishcolonial rulers at the end of the 19th century. The administration required aharbour more suitable than Suakin...
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A Race Day Cheetah; Answers to Correspondents

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 2, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...from the Persian jang (war) and jangawee (faith warrior), a term traditionally used by North African Muslim clans such as the Mahdists and Fatimids. Kathy Breen, Belfast. QUESTION: How does the tilting technology used in Pendolino trains compare to that in British...

Encyclopedia Articles on: mahdists

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Kasala

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Founded in 1840 as a military camp for the troops of Muhammad Ali during his conquest of Sudan, Kasala was captured by the Mahdists in 1885 and by the Italians in 1894. Restored to Egyptian sovereignty in 1897, it became part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
2.

Al Ubayyid

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...from Nigeria. Al Ubayyid is also a trade and transshipment point. Founded by the Turko-Egyptian pashas in 1821, it fell to the Mahdists in 1883 and was destroyed. Its reconstruction followed the fall of the Mahdist empire in 1898. ____________________ The Columbia...
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Buller, Sir Redvers Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Canada. In Africa he fought in the Kafir and Zulu wars (1878 79), against the Boers in the Transvaal (1881), and against the Mahdists in Sudan (1884 85). As adjutant general (1890 97), Buller reorganized the armys supply and transport services. He was made...
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Gondar

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...as the capital of Ethiopia from c.1635 to 1867. In the 19th cent. the city declined, and in 1887 it was sacked by Sudanese Mahdists (see Mahdi ). The city had a large concentration of Falashas (Ethiopian Jews), but most have emigrated to Israel. Gondar...
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Dongola

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...reconquered the land in 1366 and the capital was abandoned. Dongola was briefly ruled (1811 20) by Mamluk refugees from Egypt. The Mahdists, in the course of their revolt, held it from 1885 to 1896. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...

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