Holy City on the Nile: Omdurman During the Mahdiyya, 1885-1898

ISBN-13: 9781558765160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 280 str.

Robert S. Kramer

Opis

The late nineteenth century of the Common Era also marked the end of the thirteenth Islamic century, a time when millions of Muslims - especially in sub-Saharan Africa - fervently expected the arrival of a Mahdi, a 'divinely guided one', who would fill the world with justice and equity and defeat the enemies of Islam.