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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

‎the mulāzimīn/الملازمين ‎The bodyguards and attendants of the Khalifa `Abdallahi of Mahdist Sudan (r. 1885–1899).

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

using the drawing tablet after a million years #ocart #doodle

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“There were even the padded caps of his body-guard of almost the same pattern as those worn by mediæval jesters. Grim jesters!”

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they made gooseworx @gooseworx.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Jax if she wasn't a huge piece of shit.

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Sultan Ibrahim Qarad at the Battle of Manawashi, 1874 #rkgk #art

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Old piece - al-sultan Doud Banja

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Who ever scanned this book is trying to kill me

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The jihādiyya of ʿAlī Dīnār were trained in a manner identical to that of the Mahdiyya. ʿAlī ʿAbdallāh Abū Sinn, Mudhakira Abī Sinn ʿan mudīriyya Dār Fūr (1968), 37.

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The training received by Mahdist jihādiyya

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Making horrendous financial decisions ☺️

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The Anglo-Egyptian army often re-enrolled captured slave soldiers into their own military forces—although technically granted manumission they were “enlisted for life.” Image source: “The Avenging of Gordon,” Navy & Army Illustrated vi, no. 77 (July 23, 1898), 431.

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The jihādiyya were slaves soldiers recruited regions such as Dār Fūr, the Nūba mountains, and Baḥr al-Ghazāl. Many had previously served the Turco-Egyptian government were the backbone of the Mahdist military. Likewise, they made up a key component of the mulāzimiyya guardsmen of the Mahdist elite.

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Fadl El Mula Ali, Said Imami, Said Morgan, Bekhit Nueir, Murgan Idris, &c. […]”

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Spellings as per Intelligence Report, Egypt no. 27 (June 1894), 3. Sudan Archive, Durham: “Kheir Es Sid, Jamus, Mohamed Ajami, Abd Er Rahman, Kambal Beshir, Kheiralla […] Masud Hassan, Mohamed Ghabasha […] Surur Esh Zubair, […] Osman Esh Sheikh, Gohar Ibrahim, Guma Ahmed,

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

ʿUthmān al-Shaykh, Jawhar Ibrāhīm, Jumaʿa Aḥmad, Faḍl al-Mawlā ʿAlī, Said Imami [?], Saʿīd Marjān, Bakhīt Nuer [Nūiyr], and Marjān Idrīs.

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

List of (primarily) slave soldiers of the mulāzimiyya and al-Kāra garrisons, Omdurman 1894. All of these men held the rank of raʾs mīʾa (head of a hundred). Khayr al-Sayyid, Jāmūs, Muḥammad al-ʿAjamī, ʿAbd al- Raḥmān, Kanbāl Bashīr, Khayrallāh, Masʿūd Ḥasan, Muḥammad Ghabasha [?], Surūr al-Zubayr,

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

While the appearance of Abyssinians among the Khalīfa’s mulāzimīn in Omdurman is not a rare occurrence, it is interesting to note such a man in the army of amīr Maḥmūd (who had spent the majority of his career in the west as governor of Kurdufān and Dār Fūr).

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Burleigh, Sirdar and Khalifa, 4th edn (1899), 178–179. On 29 March, 1898, an Abyssinian “officer attached to Mahmoud’s person” deserted to the Anglo-Egyptian camp. Presumably this was a member of amīr Maḥmūd’s mulāzimiyya.

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Bournouaise (woman of Bornu) ca. 1844 #ethnographxt

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

'Sanusi People' Kano, Nigeria ca. 1950 #ethnographxt

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Qāsim (1985), 1041: “mulāzim (S.) [in] the days of the Mahdiyya the mulāzim belonged to the council of the Mahdī and the Khalīfa” “mulāzim (S.) ayyām al-Mahdiyya al-mulāzim li-majlis al-Mahdī wa-l-Khalīfa.”

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Flag attributed to the Sudanese Mahdī Image sources: Johnson and Cox, “Notes on Mahdist Flags“ (2015), 24; Nicoll and Nusairi, “The Origins, Development and Use of Banners During the Mahdīa” (2020), 17. #africa #africanhistory #sudan

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The assertion made in Nicoll and Nusairi (2024) that the banner was crying out to the Ottoman Sultan is self evidently flawed and nigh delusion (so much as I like Nicoll).

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The text of the flags in question: “lā ilāh illā Allāh: al-amān al-amān Muḥammad rasūl Allāh al-sulṭan al-sulṭan” translated as: “There is no god but Allah, the Protector, the Protector Muḥammad is the Prophet of Allah, the Sultan, the Sultan”

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Addison Rae ⋆˙⟡ @ytima.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It is curious that the flag attributed to the Mahdī should bear the same ending formula as the flag of the Khatmiyya, the text being an extract from a devotional work by al-Ḥasan al-Mīrghanī. Nicoll and Nusairi (2020), 16–17; Karrar (1992), 136.

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