o:id
	12777
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12777
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	Revolutionary Mahdism and Resistance to Colonial Rule in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1905–6
dcterms:subject
	Mahdism
	colonialism
	resistance movement
	Sokoto Caliphate
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25145
dcterms:date
	1990
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115432852 Q115432852
	iwac-reference-0000277
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	The Mahdist uprising of 1905–6 was a revolutionary movement that attempted to overthrow British and French colonial rule, the aristocracy of the Sokoto Caliphate and the zarmakoy of Dosso. The Mahdist supporters of the revolt were disgruntled peasants, fugitive slaves and radical clerics who were hostile both to indigenous authorities and to the colonial regimes. There was no known support among aristocrats, wealthy merchants or the ‘ulama. Thus the revolt reflected strong divisions based on class and, as an extension, on ethnicity. The pan-colonial appeal of the movement and its class tensions highlight another important feature: revolutionary Mahdism differed from other forms of Mahdism that were common in the Sokoto Caliphate at the time of the colonial conquest. There appears to have been no connection with the Mahdists who were followers of Muhammad Ahmed of the Nilotic Sudan or with those who joined Sarkin Musulmi Attahiru I on his hijra of 1903.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1714
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1724
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700025019 10.1017/S0021853700025019
bibo:issue
	2
bibo:pageEnd
	244
bibo:pageStart
	217
bibo:volume
	31

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