Author: Richard A. Bermann; Winston S. Churchill [intro.]
Title: The Mahdi of Allah, the Story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed
Description: London & New York, Putnam, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. The first English language edition of Richard A. Bermann's account of the Mahdist insurrection led by Mohammed Ahmed. The first English language edition of this work, published in the same year as the original German.Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated, complete.With an introduction from Winston Churchill, who participated in the defeat of Mahdist forces at battle of Omdurman in 1898. Churchill wrote his second book, 'The River War', about this campaign.This work details the theocracy that the messianic Islamic leader Mohammed Ahmed led in central and northern Sudan in the final decades of the nineteenth century.With a tipped in leaf following the title page explaining that to avoid causing offence, 'the publishers desire to state that the claim of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed to the sublime title of "The Mahdi of Allah" is not recognised by the author of this book&apos.From the library of Joseph Herbert Thorniley, former editor of "The Pioneer" Allahabad. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, fine. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with only the odd spot. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .

Keywords: Mahdist insurrection Mohammed Ahmed battle of Omdurman Mohammed Ahmed Not Stated


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