Sudan in Turmoil: Hassan al-Turabi and the Islamist state

摘要

At a time when Hollywood stars are leading the world in observing ' Darfur Day' to show solidarity with civilians in the war-torn region, the history of the Islamist movement in Sudan and its domination after the June 1989 military coup is revised again. This history has circulated around a single figure: the Sudanese intellectual and internationally known Hassan al-Turabi. While there are several biography-type works about Turabi, notably Abd al-Wahab al-Affendi's: Turabi's Revolution: Islam and state power in Sudan, this is not a biography of Hassan al-Turabi. Moreover, the issue of Sudan's devastating civil war with the South is excluded from the core of discussion (another volume by the same authors Requiem for the Sudan examines the theme).