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Book SynopsisThis book is not a typical biography of Hasan al-Turabi. It is a project in the study of a Sudanese human experience at the heart of which Hasan al-Turabi was an actor, a victim and a victimizer. Hasan al-Turabi, the rise and fall of his Islamism, and the dramatic life of generations of the Sudanese community of state that link the underlying causes to the capacity of the state not only as a throwback to oppression and exploitation of the colonial state but also accompanied by an alarming persistence of violence and corruption that exists within the wilding and greed of al-Turabi's Islamists. Here, the Sudanese experience of al-Turabi Islamism stands as a very important one in the history of the Sudan, the region, and in general. This not because of its success but because of its total failure. It proved that what has been advocated as al-Islam howa al-Hal (Islam is the solution) turned into violence is the solution. Hence, what the Sudanese Islamism (al-Turabi Islamism) presented to t
Trade ReviewAbdullahi Gallab, who participated in many of the events he describes, is a superb storyteller. His account of Turabi’s rise in the context of colonial Sudan, where the ghost of Mahdism still lingered, his leadership in volatile—and violent—post-independence student and national politics, and his eventual fall from grace, offers an essential key to understanding Sudan’s past and uncertain present. -- Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: The Man Chapter One: An Introduction Chapter Two: Childhood, Family, Environment Chapter Three: Ḥasan al-Turabi School Days Part II: The Islamist Chapter Four: The Great Transformation Chapter Five: The Road to Islamism Chapter Six: From Hasan to Dr. Hasan Part III: From the Revolution to Counter Revolution Chapter Seven: October the Revolution and its Generation Chapter Eight: October: the Counter-Revolution and its Discontents Part IV: The Shiekh Chapter Nine: The Two Tails of Counter-Revolution Chapter Ten: No Turban No Crown Chapter Eleven: The Anatomy of Death Chapter Twelve: Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index
