T he second week of August, I was in Tehran and Qom for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s fourth annual “International Conference of Mahdism Doctrine,” sponsored by the Bright Future Institute. This ...
This buffalo-shaped drum probably came to Khartoum through the internal African slave trade from non-Muslim southern Sudan. There it would have been played as part of a court orchestra and used to ...
The Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1881-1898 : a study of its origins, development and overthrow / by P.M. Holt Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...
I initially wanted to write about a more peaceful time in Sudan’s history, the time of rebuilding and fresh hopes after the British invasion of 1898 which brought an end to the Mahdist state. In 2018, ...
The Dervish army could be seen before it was heard – 52,000 tribesmen chanting “La ilaha illa-llah” in a wild cacophony of sound as they ran across the red sand towards the thin line of British ...
The uprising has revealed the many fractures of Sudanese history, while actively reshaping it Sudanese protesters from the city of Atbara, sitting atop a train, arrive at the Bahari station in ...
Definition of MAHDIST • Dictionary meaning of Mahdist • Words with similar meaning as Mahdist ...
This buffalo-shaped drum probably came to Khartoum through the internal African slave trade from non-Muslim southern Sudan. There it would have been played as part of a court orchestra and used to ...