Beschreibung:
The Mahdia was an important Islamic millenarian movement of the Nilotic Sudan in the last two decades of the nineteenth century
The S?ra of the Mahdi; Explanatory Notes; Preface 1 : The Book of the Bliss of Him Who Seeks Guidance by the Life of the Imam the Mahdi; Introduction; 1: The Fulfillment of the Traditions in Respect of the Mahdi's Characteristics and Perfection 1; 2: The Mahdi's Characteristics, Attributes and Miracles 1; 3: The Mahdi's Religious Observances Before His Manifestation 1; 4: The Mahdi's Propaganda and Correspondence 1; 5: The Mustering of the Tribes and the Arrival of Successive Deputations to the Mahdi 1; 6: The Mahdi's First Battle With the Turks and His Victory Over Them 1; 7: The Mahdi's Hijra to Qad?r and His Jih?D, Before the Fall of El Obeid 1; 8: The Mahdi's Campaigns, Expeditions and Missions, And the Conquest of Some Towns 1; 9: The Mahdi's Death and the Accession of the Khalifa 1