Download or read book Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mahdī written by Hassan Ibrahim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an engrossing analysis of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mahdī’s initiative to abandon the futile political violence and religious fanaticism of the 19th century historic Mahdiyya. It articulates his alternative constitutional strategy that has placed Neo-Mahdism in the centre stage of Sudanese politics.