The Sufi Brotherhoods in the SudanThis is a comprehensive historical study of the Islamic mystical brotherhoods of the northern Sudan. Based on new or previously inaccessible oral and written sources, it traces the change from lineage-based holy clans to centralized supra-tribal brotherhoods in the 19th century. It links this evolution to both external influences from Egypt and Arabia and changes in northern Sudanese society brought about by Egyptian colonial rule. The analysis of this fundamental shift in the nature of religious organization is seen as a major contributory factor in the Mahdist Revolutiuon of 1882-5. The last two chapters present an account of the structure and rituals of the brotherhoods based on their own writings. |
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the Qādiriyya and the Shadhiliyya | 20 |
the First Phase | 42 |
The Consolidation of the Khatmiyya | 73 |
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Abd al-Raḥmān Abd Allah Abdallab Abū Rannāt Abū Salim Aḥmad Aḥmad al-Tayyib al-Din al-Dufari al-ḥājj al-Hasan al-Mirghani al-Huday al-Kabbāshi al-Rahman al-sayyid al-Shaykh al-Wali Allāh Arabic Awlad Berber Bergen branch brotherhoods Cairo centre Dayf Allah 1974 death descendants dhikr Dongola followers founder Funj Gezira Ḥamadtūiyāb Hasan Ḥijāz Holt Ibid Ibn Dayf Allah Ibn Idris Ibrāhīm Ibrahim al-Rashid Idrisiyya ijāza initiated Intel interview Islamic Karrar Kasala khalifa khalwa Khartoum Khartoum North Khatmiyya Khōjali Kitāb al-ibāna known Kordofan letter litany MacMichael 1922 madhhab Mahdi Mahdist Mahdiyya Manāqib master mawlid Mecca Mirghani family Misc mosque Muḥammad Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Hasan Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad Sirr al-Khatim Muḥammad Uthman Muḥammad Uthman al-Mirghani Muslim Naḍifab Nūri Prophet Qadiriyya Quran Rajab religious Sammāniyya Sawākin Shadhiliyya Shaykh Shāyqiyya Shayqiyya region Shendi spiritual Sudanese Sufi Sufi orders Sufism Sultan tariqa teacher thesis Tijaniyya Trimingham 1949 Turco-Egyptian University of Khartoum village Voll