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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450502003321

Autore

Collins Robert O.

Titolo

Revolutionary Sudan : Hasan al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000 / / Robert O. Collins, J. Millard Burr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2003

ISBN

1-280-46768-1

9786610467686

1-4237-1243-9

90-474-0245-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; ; 90

Disciplina

962.404

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Sudan

Islam and politics

Islam and state - Sudan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Map / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Acronyms / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Preface / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter One The Islamist Revolution / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Two Foreign Policy Initiatives / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Three The Return of Hasan al-Turabi / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Four The NIF Takes Charge / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Five The United States and the NIF / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Six State Sponsored Terrorism / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Seven The French Connection / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Eight The Islamic Conference, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Nine The Plot to Assassinate President Mubarak and the Sudan / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Ten Searching for Friends, Surrounded by Enemies / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Chapter Eleven Arakis, Oil, and China / J. Millard Burr and Robert O.



Collins -- Chapter Twelve The End of an Islamist Experiment / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Bibliography / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins -- Index / J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins.

Sommario/riassunto

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.