Studies in the History of the Near East by P.M. Holt

Author:P.M. Holt [Holt, P.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Middle East, General, Social Science, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781136273315
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28T01:20:07+00:00

NOTES

1 See above, “The coming of the Funj”, pp. 67–87.

2 EI2, I, 1032, sub voce.

3 ‘Abd al-Maḥmūd Nūr al-Dā’im, Azāhīr al-riyāḍ (Cairo, 1954), 18–19. Compare the acquisition of kinship to the Prophet by the Sons of Jābir; above, p. 88.

4 A valuable memorandum on the Majādhīb, written by Na‘ūm Shuqayr on 31 May 1915, is now in the Sudan Archive at the School of Oriental Studies, Durham (195/2, pp. 9–14).

5 T, 187–8. J. S. Trimingham, Islam in the Sudan (London, 1949), 224–6.

6 The birth-date appears in the summary-translation in MacMichael, Arabs, II, 242.

7 For the Bisharein (Bishārīn), see EI2, I, 1239–40, sub voce.

8 J. L. Burckhardt, Travels in Nubia (London, 1819), 266–8.

9 T, 133–48; summary-translation in MacMichael, Arabs, II, 244–5.

10 See above, “Four Funj land-charters”, pp. 104–20.

11 Trimingham, op. cit., 226–8. Azāhīr al-riyāḍ (see note 3 above) is a most important, though hagiographical, biography of Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, and also gives much information about his disciples. It was written by a grandson of AḤmad al-Ṭayyib.

12 Trimingham, op. cit., 231–5.

13 ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī, ‘Ajā’ib al-āthār [Būlāq, 1880], II, 240–1.

14 FC 74.

15 Shuqayr, Ta’rīkh, III, 112.

16 MacMichael, Arabs, II, 61 ff. (a genealogical work compiled by Aḥmad b. Ismā‘īl al-Azharī); Trimingham, op. cit., 235–6; Shuqayr, op. cit., I, 139.

17 Text of this manifesto in Shuqayr, Ta’rīkh, in, 383–91.

18 See Hill, Biographical dictionary, 402. Biographical notices of some other persons mentioned in this study may also be found in this work.

19 See above, p. 101.

20 Shuqayr, Ta’rīkh, III, 114; Azāhīr al-riyāḍ, 304.

21 Shuqayr, Ta’rīkh, III, 71.

22 A. R. C Bolton, “El Menna Ismail; fiki and emir in Kordofan”, SNR, XVII/2 (1934), 229–41.

23 ‘Uthmān Diqna's MS. report to the Mahdi has been reproduced by the Central Records Office of the Sudan, Khartoum, as Daftar waqā’ā‘ ‘Uthmān Diqna (Archives/P/002), undated. Translation in F. R. Wingate, Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891; 2nd edn., London, 1968), 509–21.

24 A record of events, in the form of memoirs of Sayyid ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Mahdī has been published by al-Ṣādiq al-Mahdī (ed.), Jihād fī sabīl al-istiqlāl (Khartoum, n.d. [1965]).

25 Al-Ṣādiq al-Mahdī (ed.), op. cit., 24.

26 The role of the holy families and their adherents in the Condominium and subsequently is surveyed by Dr. Gabriel Warburg in “Religious Policy in the northern Sudan: ‘Ulamā’ and Ṣūfism 1899–1918” in Gabriel Baer (ed.), The ‘ulamā’ in modern history: African and Asian Studies, 7 (Jerusalem, 1971); and “Popular Islam and tribal leadership in the socio-political structure of the north Sudan” (in the press).

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