Revolutionary Sudan: Hasan Al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000 FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book investigates the objectives, activities, and a decade of success and failure by Islamist military officers and civilians to create the first Islamic government after the coup d'etat by Brigadier Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir. It describes and analyzes the role played by Hasan al-Turabi in the Sudan, the world, and the revolutionary government from its relative isolation on the frontiers of Islam and the margins of the Arab World. It follows the activities of the ideological and activist leader of the revolution who used his influence as a charismatic Muslim scholar to precipitate an Islamic revolution until his downfall and expulsion from government in 2000 by those whom he had hoped to mold to his Islamist ideologies.
SYNOPSIS
Hasan al-Turabi, the Sudanese Islamist intellectual played a central role in the efforts to establish an Islamic government in the ten years following the June 1989 military coup in the Sudan. Collins (emeritus, history, U. of California at Santa Barbara) and Burr (formerly Special Assistant to the Geographer, U.S. Department of State) follow argue that the Islamic state project of al-Turabi had little appeal for the mass of Sudanese, especially the Sufi Muslims who didn't share his particular beliefs and the Christian population in the south. They describe the different political factions within and without the revolution and examine the revolutionary government's relations with the wider world. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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