Revolutionary Sudan

Hasan al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13196-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 90, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 732 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

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 in Africa 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 this 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.

Zielgruppe

Libraries, those interested in Sudan, Middle East, International Terrorists, Historians of Africa and Middle East, Political Scientists of modern Middle East, Institutes ans specialists in international terrorism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Robert O.

Burr, J. Millard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Oakley Collins, Ph.D. (1959), Yale University, is Emeritus Professor of History of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published extensively on the history of Africa and particularly on the history of Sudan. His most recent publications include The Historical Dictionary of Pre-Colonial Africa (2001), Documents from the African Past (2001) and The Nile (2002).
Millard Burr, Ph.D., was for many years Special Assistant to The Geographer, U.S. Department of State. He served on occasion with the U.S. Agency for International Development, including a tour as relief coordinator for Operation Lifeline Sudan, 1998-1990.