Divine Madness: Moḥammed ʻAbdulle Ḥassan (1856-1920)
- ISBN-10
- 0862324432
- ISBN-13
- 9780862324438
- Series
- Divine Madness
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Zed Books
- Author
- ʻAbdi ʻAbdulqadir Sheik-ʻAbdi
Description
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.
