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.

Letter from Nūr walad Ismāʿīl [Tanbanāwī] to al-Majdhūb Abū Bakr, Abū Qarja, the delegates (umanāʾ) (al-Ṭāhir al-Majdhūb and al-Shafīʿ Aḥmad

Letter from Faḍīl Ḥamdān to the delegates (umanāʾ) (al-Ṭāhir al-Majdhūb and al-Shafīʿ Aḥmad) and the deputy of the ʿāmil al-ʿumūm al-Majdhūb Abū Bakr Yūsuf Letter from al-Ṭāhir al-Majdhūb, al-Shafīʿ Aḥmad, and al-Majdhūb Abū Bakr Yūsuf to the Khalīfa

Letter from Aḥmad Maḥmūd ʿAlī to al-Majdhūb Abū Bakr

Letter from Aḥmad Maḥmūd ʿAlī to al-Majdhūb Abū Bakr and Abū Qarja

Letter from Aḥmad Maḥmūd ʿAlī to al-Majdhūb Abū Bakr and al-Shafīʿ Aḥmad

Letter from Aḥmad Maḥmūd ʿAlī to al-Majdhūb Abū Bakr and al-Shafīʿ Aḥmad Raḥma

Letter from the umanāʾ al-Shafīʿ Aḥmad Raḥma and al-Majdhūb Abū Bakr to al-Maḥjūb ʿAwaḍ al-Karīm and al-Māḥī, and those of the anṣār who are with them.

To Aḥmad Maḥmūd ʿAlī

Letter from Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Shaykh Idrīs to the delegates (umanāʾ) (Muḥammad Khālid, al-Ṭāhir al-Majdhūb, al-Shafīʿ Aḥmad Raḥma and Ismāʿīl Aḥmad)

Report on the fighters in Kasalā sent by ʿAbd Allāh walad [Khalāṣī], the deputy of the banner of walad al-Hindī, to the umanāʾ (Khālid al-Ṭāhir al-Majdhūb, al-Shafīʿ Raḥma, Ismāʿīl Aḥmad

Manuscript draft in English of an index of 132 letters (1884-1890), mainly to and from Tūkar (ʿUthmān Diqna and Majdhūb Abū Bakr)

Printed draft in English of an index of 83 proclamations (1881-1884) of the Mahdī contained in a manuscript letter-book (c. 142 p.)

Manuscript draft in English of an index of proclamations (undated in the index) contained in a letter-book (c. 720 p.)

Manuscript draft in English of an index of missing letters (1888-1889) of a manuscript book (c. 250 p.) containing letters (1883-1890) sent by the Mahdī and the Khalīfa to the Eastern Sudan to diverse recipients.

Manuscript draft of a translation of some of ʿUthmān Diqna’s letters sent to the Mahdī to relate events in the Eastern Sudan in 1883 and 1884.

Letter from Shāʾib Aḥmad and Fāna Khandaqāwī to ʿUthmān Diqna

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from the maqādīm of al-Samrīdawāb to ʿUthmān Diqna

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

Letter from ʿUthmān Diqna to the Khalīfa

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