Footnotes -1 Al-Sayyid Abd al-Rahman, the other son of the Mahdi, was not interested in politics. He had joined the government service. -2 Ubayd Abd al-Nur: The First Rebel (Khartoum, undated) pp. 57-58. -3 Sayyid Abd al-Rahman was born on June 15, 1885, only twenty-two days after his father's death. -4 For a study of the government's policy towards Mahdism, see my article presented to the World Conference on Mahdism held in Khartoum from November 29 to December 2, 1981, titled: "Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, a Master of Manipulation 1900-1926" hereafter "Master of Manipulation." N.R.O. Int 1/18/89 Note on Mahdism by Symes to Stack, -5 4, March, 1922. P.R.O. F.O. 3/1/12374, Memorandum by Davis on -6 Mahdism, 1926 (hereafter Davies' Memorandum). -7 It appears that Sheikh al-Maraghi, by declaring that the salary was politically unassailable, failed to grasp its true meaning, because it was not merely a book for prayer as he thought, but also a tangible symbol of the Mahdi's idea. -8 Davies' Memorandum Ibrahim, H.A.: Master of Manipulation -9 -10 For more details, see: Ibrahim, H.A. "Imperialism and Neo-Mahdism in the Sudan, a Study of British Policy towards Neo-Mahdism," The International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston, U.S.A.) 13/2/1979, pp. 214-39 14