Saidullah

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Saidullah (also known as "Mullah Mastun"[1][2] lewanai faqir or lewanai in Pashto[3] and by the British as "The Great Fakir" or "Mad Fakir"[4], "Mad Fakir of Swat"[5] or the "Mad Mullah",[6]) was a Pashtun fakir and religious mendicant whose Pashto name translated to "God-intoxicated" as a reference to his religious convictions and his belief that he was capable of miraculous powers.[7] In response to the British occupation of the North West Frontier Province of modern day Pakistan, and the division of Pashtun lands by the 1,519 mile long Durand Line,[8] Saidullah declared a jihad against the occupying British Empire and led from 10,000 to 100,000[9][10][11] Pashtun tribesmen in an uprising which began with the siege of Malakand from July 26 to August 2, 1897 against British forces under Brigadier-General William Hope Meiklejohn, and Major-General Sir Bindon Blood.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Spain. 177
  2. ^ Easwaran p. 49
  3. ^ Beattie p. 171
  4. ^ Hobday p. 13
  5. ^ Edwards p. 177
  6. ^ Elliott-Lockhart p. 28
  7. ^ Beattie p. 171
  8. ^ Lamb p. 93
  9. ^ Wilkinson-Latham p. 20
  10. ^ Gore p. 405
  11. ^ Easwaran p. 49

[edit] References

  • Beattie, Hugh Imperial Frontier: Tribe and State in Waziristan, 2002 ISBN 0700713093
  • Easwaran, Eknath Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, a Man to Match His Mountains, 1999 ISBN 1888314001
  • Elliott-Lockhart, Percy C. and Dunmore, Edward M. Earl of Alexander A Frontier Campaign: A Narrative of the Operations of the Malakand and Buner Field Forces, 1897-1898, 1898
  • Edwards, David B. Heroes of the age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier ISBN 0520200640
  • Gore, Surgeon General at Nowshera, for The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, 1898
  • Hobday, Edmund A. P. Sketches on Service During the Indian Frontier Campaigns of 1897, 1898
  • Spain, James William The Pathan Borderland, 1963 ASIN B0000CR0HH
  • Wilkinson-Latham, Robert North-west Frontier 1837-1947, 1977 ISBN 0850452759