Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists

East Lansing, Michigan, October 30-November, 1992

... asked the religious authorities — the turbaned ones — to dissuade him from
reciting a poem.1 In their deliberations to convince him not to engage in politics
during the mawlid, the turbaned ones, who included the mufti (his maternal uncle
), wanted him to see that the govemment of the day was more just than the
Mahdist state whose yoke they had sufferred until its overthrow by the British. To
confound them, al BushI used a parable in which allusions were made to issues
of fiqh.