Mahdism

(15) In addition to its internal wars the Mahdist aspiration included spreading Mahdism to Abyssinia following the Battle of Gallabat in 1887 and were stopped from invading Egypt following their defeat at the Battle of Tushki in 1889 (Theobald 1951).

Thomas (history, Grambling State U.) argues that Laye's movement was the result of the convergence of Sufism, Mahdism, and ethnic nationalism in Senegal, the Gambia, and surrounding regions.

According to Islam, Mahdism is the belief in the 12th Imam of Shiite Islam, who is expected to emerge from the Occultation to fulfill his role and lead the faithful to salvation.

Colonial administrators resisted Mahdism. Recognising the strength of the emirate governance structure, British administrators in the early colonial period chose Sokoto as a first test of indirect rule, investing in it all the formal and legal authority they could muster to bolster its substantial social and religious legitimacy.

Fearful of the Sufi religious orders (tariqah) and the possibility of a resurgent Mahdism, the colonial powers opposed mystical Islam and sponsored rival religious orders, exacerbating antagonisms, particularly between the Ansar and Khatmiyya.

Mahdism has thus been for centuries the inveterate enemy of Shiism, and the Twelvers have proven exceptionally talented at suppressing this enemy.

20 Jihad movement in the subcontinent, Faridi movement in Bengal Madhist uprising in Sudan, Sanusiyya movement in Libya and Mahdism in Egypt, Padri Movement in Sumatra, Yousef M.

When I saw the invitation, one of the themes leaped off the page to me: "The Mahdism and Messianism Doctrine in Other Religions (Abrahamic)." I subsequently offered to present a paper entitled "Messianic Hope in Biblical Eschatology," which the planners accepted.

Reading the chapters on Charles Gordon, the rise of Mahdism, the Muslim revolt, and the reconquest of Sudan in 1898 will reveal a direct, bright line to the current issues of Islamic extremism, the southern Sudan question, and Darfur.

It was especially strong on the early modern period of Mahdism and on the important White Flag League that continued the struggle against imperialism in a new way even into the British colonial era.

All of these groups displayed distinct religious features, which can be summarily categorized as "revolutionary Mahdism." The belief in charismatic leaders as Mahdis explains the religious and political vigor of these groups: (8) once the end of days is believed to be close, the believer is urged to take an activist stance and engage for the case of the Mahdi (Dressler, Die alevitische Religion 45f.).

Although the Mahdi was dead, Mahdism as a political force was far from spent.

The transition from In the Hour of Signs to Wings of Dust is simple: imperialism and Mahdism were both discourses that naturalized the landscape, appropriated the expanse of the land with all its distinctive features, and placed it at the service of the Empire or the nation.

Mahdism (the expectation, central to emerging Shi'ism, of an apocalyptic return of a descendant of Muhammad) was equally early but represented a renewal, albeit by deferral, of messianic hopes, based originally on the Samaritan Moses redivivus idea (whether of Moses himself, or of the Taheb as a prophet/revealer like unto Moses).