Photograph by Brian McMorrow shows a mannequin display of the jubba worn by the Khalifa's mulazimin (bodyguard-cum-attendants). Khalifa House Museum, Omdurman, 2009.
This jubba pattern differs from one on display in the 1970s, see: Douglas Johnson, “Uniforms of the Mahdiyya,” The Mahdist Wars Sourcebook: Volume II 1886–1899, Patrick R. Wilson, ed. (2015), 7 fig. G; Ian Knight, “Sudan 1881–98: The Mahdist Patched Jibbeh,” Military Illustrated: Past & Present (1989), 32, 34 fig. 4, 35.
This more recent jubba has also been catalogued in Hiba Uthman Abd al-Karim, Mathaf bayt al-Khalifa fi Omdurman (2023), 94, 116 fig. 8.
Khalifa's body guard in Dervish costume
Photograph by Brian McMorrow shows a mannequin display of the jubba worn by the Khalifa's mulazimin (bodyguard-cum-attendants). Khalifa House Museum, Omdurman, 2009.
This jubba pattern differs from one on display in the 1970s, see: Douglas Johnson, “Uniforms of the Mahdiyya,” The Mahdist Wars Sourcebook: Volume II 1886–1899, Patrick R. Wilson, ed. (2015), 7 fig. G; Ian Knight, “Sudan 1881–98: The Mahdist Patched Jibbeh,” Military Illustrated: Past & Present (1989), 32, 34 fig. 4, 35.
This more recent jubba has also been catalogued in Hiba Uthman Abd al-Karim, Mathaf bayt al-Khalifa fi Omdurman (2023), 94, 116 fig. 8.