Madshir Ali Al-Bushi and his role in political life

Footnotes: 1. Lotfi Ahmed Babiker Obaidullah, Madshir Ali Al-Bushi: His Life and Poetry, Master's Thesis, Adamana Islamic University, College of Arabic Language, 1996 (unpublished), p. 5. 2. Ibid.: Same page. According to the narration of Professor Issam Abdel Rahman Ahmed Madbar and Wad Madani Al-Ahliyya, and the grandson of Madshir Ali Al-Bushi's daughter, the founder of this family came from Basioun in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt, but he was not attributed to Basioun to distinguish him from the rest of his family from this region, and he was attributed to his mother's village in the Gharbia region of Egypt, which is the village of (Bushieh). 3. Othman Hamad Allah, Book of Acquaintance and Tribe in Rufaa and Al-Khassaisa in Sudan (n.d.), p. 4. Mahjoub Omar Bashari, Pioneers of Sudanese Thought, p. 374. * The city of Wad Madani is old, its origin and founding date are unknown. It was a small village on the banks of the Blue Nile known as Al-Nasim, its inhabitants were from the Ja'alin and Al-Khawalda. Then Muhammad Madani Al-Sunni came to it and founded Khalwas there, so the village began to grow and expand until it bore the name Wad Madani. Sheikh Ali Al-Bushi mentioned the reason that prompted Muhammad Ali Pasha to choose it as the first capital for the Turkish-Egyptian conquest campaign. It was narrated that in the year 1227 AH / 1857 AD, Muhammad Ali's attempt to bring his armies from Sudan to Madani failed, which might have been a reason for choosing Madani. Muhammad Ali's attempt to bring his armies from Sudan to Madani failed, so Madani was one of the most beautiful places to be a base for construction and close to the gold mines in Bani So Madani was one of the most beautiful places to be a base Shuqqal. At that time, the legions of soldiers moved from Sennar to Wad Madani and a palace was built there for the residence of Ismail Pasha Ragih Muhammad Abdel Rahim, Muhammad Ali Pasha, Um Durman Magazine, Issue Nine, Friday, January 15, 1937, First Year, p. 258. 5. Lotfi Ahmed Babiker Abdullah, op. cit., p. 6. 6. Ibid., p. 7. 7. Sheikh Mubarak Shatout, Wad Madani: The Soul (n.d.), p. 31. 8. Lotfi Ahmed Babiker Abdullah, op. cit., p. 7. 9. The narration of Professor Issam Abdel Rahman Ahmed contains errors by Mubarak Shatout, who considered that Ali Al-Bushi converted from the Shadhiliyya to the Sammaniyya, but the opposite is true. See Sheikh Mubarak Shatout, op. cit., p. 31. 10. Lotfi Ahmed Babiker Abdullah, op. cit., p. 7. 11. Sheikh Mubarak Shatout, op. cit., p. 31.

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