Bibliography of the Mahdiyya
Bibliography of the Mahdiyya
Unpublished Theses:
Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed Shouk. “The Fiscal Administration of the Mahdist State in the Sudan (1881–1898).” MA thesis (University of Bergen, 1991).
Ahmed Khalid Abdalla. “The Lahawiyin: Identity and History in a Sudanese Arab Tribe.” PhD thesis (Durham University, 2010).
Badini, Francesca. “Le Pie Madri della Nigrizia e i Comboniani prigionieri della Mahdiyya (1881–1898): memoire ed epistole.” MA thesis (University of Bologna, 2016–2017).
Deemer, James (Khalid) Davidson. “Umm Durmān during the Mahdiyya.” PhD thesis (Harvard University, 1988).
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Johnson, Nels. “The Ideological Structure of the Sudanese Mahdiya.” MA thesis (McGill University, 1972).
Kramer, Robert S. “Holy City on the Nile: Omdurman, 1885–1898.” PhD dissertation (Northwestern University, 1991).
Kuhn, Michael William. “Markets and Trade in Omdurman, Sudan.” PhD dissertation (University of California Los Angeles, 1970).
Maḥmūd ʿAbdallāh Ibrāhīm. “Ḥamla al-amīr Maḥmūd w. Aḥmad ilā al-shamāl 1315 H‒1897/98 AD.” MA thesis (University of Khartoum, 1969).
M.E. Shibeika. “The Sudan and the Mahdist Revolution of 1881–5.” PhD thesis (University of London, 1949).
Muḥammad Saʿīd al-Qaddāl. “Minṭaqa al-Qaḍārif—al-Qāllabāt fīʿahd al-Mahdiyya dirāsa fī al-siyāsa al-dākhiliyya wa-l-khārjiyya li-dawla al-Mahdiyya.” MA thesis (University of Khartoum, 1970).
Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad. “ʿAlāqāt al-dawla al-Mahdiyya bi al-Ḥabasha wa-āthar al-ʿawāmil al-dawliyya ʿilīhā.” MA thesis (Cairo University, 1977).
Poussier, Anaël. “Ruling the Unruly: a Provincial History of the Mahdiyya in Eastern Sudan (1883–1891).” PhD thesis (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2024).
Salih Mohammad Nur. “A critical edition of the Memoirs of Yūsuf Mikhāʾīl.” PhD thesis (University of London, 1962).
Shaked, Haim. “An Historical Study of Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Qādir, Kitāb Saʿādat al-Mustahdī bi-Sīrat al-Imām al-Mahdī.” PhD thesis (University of London, 1969).
Syed Abdur Razack Bukhari. “Military Aspects of Internal Security in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898–1925, With Special Reference to Northern Sudan.” MA thesis (Royal Holloway College, 1972).
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