Mahdi correspondence. Copyright National Records Office.
Mahdi correspondence. Copyright National Records Office.

Mahdia

Mahdi correspondence. Copyright National Records Office.
National Records Office

A collection of Mahdia documents, manuscripts, and images.

Index in Arabic ʿUthmān Diqna’s letter-book

Index in English ʿUthmān Diqna’s letter-book

Cover (Osma Digna’s Correspondence) and translation of a letter from the Mahdī to ʿUthmān Diqna dated 20/05/1301

Translation of a letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to Muḥammad Awrair w. Mūsā dated 08/08/1311. Accompanying note to NRO-M001003 by Lewey, the head of Military Intelligence in Sawākin.

Note by Wingate to General Grenfell, the Sirdar, on forwarding the index of ʿUthmān Diqna’s miscellaneous letters

Note by Wingate to General Grenfell, the Sirdar, on forwarding the index of ʿUthmān Diqna’s letter-book to Sir E. Baring (Lord Cromer) and Colonel Holled-Smith.

Note by Wingate to the Sirdar on sending the index of ʿUthmān Diqna’s miscellaneous letters

Note by Wingate detailing what has been sent to the Sirdar and Lord Cromer

Note by Wingate to a Colonel forwarding him the index to some of ʿUthmān Diqna’s correspondence

Copy of a telegram sent from the Intelligence office in Halfa to the one in Cairo on 9 September 1895

Cover “March Diary / Department of Military Intelligence / 28/5/94” + nine pages of numbers

Series of five letters exchanged between Muḥammad ʿUthmān Abū Qarja, the Khalīfa ʿAbd Allāh, the leaders of the banner of Shāʾib Aḥmad, the representatives of the shariʿa, the deputies of the Khalīfa in Tūkar and ʿAbd Allāh Abū Bakr Yūsuf (the secretary of the treasury of Tokar).

Letter from the Khalīfa ʿAbd Allāh to all the combatants in Tūkar

Letter from the Khalīfa ʿAbd Allāh to all the combatants in Tūkar

Letter from the Khalīfa to the Ḥamdūrāb

Letter from the Khalīfa to the delegates (umanāʾ)

Letter from Ḥasan Muḥammad al-Kindī to ʿUthmān Diqna

Letter from Aḥmad al-Naṣrī Idrīs al-Ḥasanī to the Khalīfa. Letter from Khalīfa to to the delegates (umanāʾ).

Letter from Ḥamad Muḥammad Khayr to the Khalīfa . Letter from Khalīfa to the delegates (umanāʾ)

Letter from Sulaymān Muḥammad ʿAwaḍ to Abū Qarja Letter from Abū Qarja to Abū Bakr Yūsuf, secretary of the treasury Letter from Abū Bakr Yūsuf to the secretary of the department of money

Letter from Ḍaw al-Bayt Ādam to ʿUthmān Diqna

Letter from the Khalīfa to the delegates (umanāʾ)

Letter from Muḥammad al-Kindī to the Khalīfa

Letter from the Khalīfa to the umanāʾ

Letter from Muḥammad and Aḥmad, the sons of Mūsā Ibrāhīm, to the sons of Abū Bakr Yūsuf al-Majdhūb, ʿAbd Allāh and b. al-Malādh al-Shaykh b. al-Ṭāhir al-Majdhūb.

Letter from Awrīsh ibn Ḥāmid to ʿUthmān Diqna

Letter from Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Shaykh Idrīs to Abū Qarja

Letter from ʿAbd al-Qādir Salāṭīn to al-Ṭāhir al-Majdhūb.

Letter from Khāṭir Ḥamīdān to the umanāʾ

Letter from all the traders and their dependents from Maṣūwaʿ and [?] to the delegates (umanāʾ) Letter from the umanāʾ to Abū Qarja Letter from Abū Qarja to umanāʾ

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