Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition
Ausgabe:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Ausgabe:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755610570
Inhalt:
Introduction -- 1. Remembering Childhood -- 2. Sudan from 1500-1900 -- 3. Escaping the Village Shop -- 4. Training an Effendi -- 5. Starting Work and Getting Married -- 6. The Republican -- Party -- 7. Taking the Lift to the Fields of Heaven -- 8. Giving Up Abstinence -- 9. Independence for the Elite -- 10. Battle Lines -- 11. Glorious October.
Inhalt:
"Can Sudan, one of Africa's most diverse countries, function as an Islamic state? Mahmud Muhammad Taha posed an original answer to this question. Taha was the charismatic leader of the 'Republican Brothers and Sisters', a small group of Sudanese nationalists who called for a mystical, inclusive reinterpretation of Islam that ended traditional legal discriminations against women and non-Muslims. Taha's followers pitched his sometimes controversial mix of law and mysticism on Sudanese street corners in the 1970s. Sudanese Islamist politicians, who used a more divisive interpretation of Islam, opposed him vigorously. When they gained control of the state in the chaotic 1980s, Taha was executed. In Taha's first biography, Edward Thomas explores the life and ideas of an important Sudanese reformer who has become a symbol for resistance, tolerance and human rights."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781786734952
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781848850040
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9780755610570
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