On parade #doodle #rkgk

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Prisoner of War #art #rkgk

Moon #doodle #ocart

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#art #doodle

Dearest Uncle #art #rkgk

"Me and Ion" Saarn and Ion based on SCP-5480 #SCPFoundation #SCP #SCPfanart #sarkicism #illustration #art #bodyhorror #イラスト

Called away #doodle #sketch #rkgk

I have to become more punk

Old piece - al-sultan Doud Banja

Shot by an arrow

Where all my pictures go

Execution of al-Mannā #doodle #sketch #rkgk

Wanderer #rkgk #doodle #art

Mink in the grass #rkgk #doodle #art

Stumbling death #rkgk #art

Crater on an alien shore

I forget this place exists

Who ever scanned this book is trying to kill me

The training received by Mahdist jihādiyya

Making horrendous financial decisions ☺️

Oops, spring locked! #fnaf #art #fanart

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.

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.

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,

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.

Bournouaise (woman of Bornu) ca. 1844 #ethnographxt

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

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.”

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

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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