Divine Madness: Moḥammed ʻAbdulle Ḥassan (1856-1920)A book about Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the Dervish leader who spearheaded the Somali resistance to British colonial interests in the early twentieth century; known by his followers as the Sayyid ("Master") and in the colonial literature as the "Mad Mullah". This book, which took Abdi more than ten years to complete, examines from a social and historical perspective the rise of the Sayyid and his movement. It consists of an introduction and six chapters. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The land and its inhabitants | 13 |
Background to the Dervish uprising | 28 |
Copyright | |
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Divine Madness: Moḥammed ʻAbdulle Ḥassan (1856-1920) Abdi Sheik-Abdi,ʻAbdi ʻAbdulqadir Sheik-ʻAbdi No preview available - 1993 |
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