Marc Gaborieau, Le Mahdi incompris. Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi (1786-1831) et le millénarisme en Inde (The Misunderstood Mahdi, Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi, (1786-1831) and Millenarianism in India)

The life of Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi (1786-1931) was short, since he died in his jihadist attempt against the Sikhs at the age of forty-five. However, this Mahdi left behind him a puzzle to which Marc Gaborieau dedicated his energy for more than four decades before finally solving it. The work that Gaborieau, a director of studies at the EHESS, devoted to this illustrious figure in Indian history at the dawn of the colonial period is proof that painstaking scholarship always pays off in the end, ..