Islam, Sectarianism, and Politics in Sudan Since the MahdiyyaGabriel Warburg contends that efforts in Sudan to enforce an Islamic state and an Islamic constitution on a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society have led to prolonged civil war, endless military coups, and political, social, and economic bankruptcy. He analyzes the history of Sudan's Islamic politics to illuminate current conflicts in the region. The revolt in 1881 was led by a Mahdi who came to renew and purify Islam. It was in effect an uprising against a corrupt Islamic regime, the largely alien Turco-Egyptian ruling elite. The Mahdiyya was therefore an anti-colonial movement, seeking to liberate Sudan from alien rule and to unify the Muslim Umma, and it later evolved into the first expression of Sudanese nationalism and statehood. Post-independence Islamic radicalism, in turn, can be viewed against the background of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1899-1956). It also thrived as a result of the resurgence of Islam since the mid-1960s, when Nasserism and other popular ideologies were swept aside. Finally, Sudan has emerged as the center of militancy in Sunni Islam since June 1989, when a group of radical Islamic officers, under the guidance of Dr. Hassan al-Turabi and the NIF, assumed power. |
Contents
ISLAMIZATION | 1 |
Islam and State under the Turkiyya 182081 | 7 |
THE MAHDIST STATE 188198 | 22 |
Muhammad Ahmad b Abdallah the Mahdi | 37 |
The Mahdist State under the Khalifa Abdullahi | 43 |
Laying the Foundations of Mahdist Administration | 50 |
RELIGIOUS POLICY UNDER | 57 |
The Emergence of NeoMahdism | 81 |
59 | 167 |
The AnsarUmma in Politics 195686 | 170 |
71 | 173 |
The Muslim Brothers and Numayri | 178 |
87 | 182 |
The Third Democratic Interlude 19869 | 194 |
ISLAMISM AND DEMOCRACY | 202 |
Islam and Democracy | 222 |
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