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Al-Āthār al-kāmila li’l-imām al-Mahdī (The writings of the Mahdi). Vol. 1, Letters and Related Documents until the End of 1300 (1882–83), by the Sudanese MahdiMuḥammad Aḥmad ibn-‘Abdullāh, edited by Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Abū Salīm. 472 pages. Khartoum University Press, Khartoum1990.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

R. S. O’Fahey
R. S. O’Fahey*
Affiliation:
University of Bergen
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , July 1991 , pp. 65 - 66
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1991

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References

1 A detailed list of Dr. Abu Salim’s writings will be found in Sudante Africa. A Journal of Historical Sources 1 (Bergen and Evanston, forthcoming). Here, I have only referred to some of his Mahdist studies.

2 The Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1881–1898 (2nd ed., Oxford 1970).

3 Al-Siyāsa al-iqtiṣādīya li’l-dawla al-Mahdīya (Khartoum 1986).

4 And which may be contrasted with the Marxist approach of Muḥammad Sa’īd al-Qaddāl in his Lawḥa li-thā’ir Sūdānī, al-imām al-Mahdī (Khartoum n.d.).

5 An analysis and “condensed paraphrase” of this work is given in Haim Shaked, The Life of the Sudanese Mahdi (New Brunswick, N.J. 1978).

6 These volumes were reissued by the NRO in 1963.

7 In press (Omdurman Islamic University Press) is a further two-volume work by Dr. Abu Salim, Fihris āthār al-Mahdī (mimeograph, Khartoum 1968), which comprises a series of detailed analytical indices (first line, summary, addressee, etc.) of the Mahdi’s writings; the second volume is an annotated listing of other writings of the Mahdīya.