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This 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 the world that such a state, is
itself an unachievable idea neither by default nor by design. It is
as Hasan al-Turabi himself has stated that his Islamists "tarnished
the Image of Islam." Hasan al-Turabi endured more suffering under
the hands of his merciless disciples more than he suffered from his
enemies. Gallab argues that Islamism like other isms is crucible
for violence and evil. Nevertheless, al-Turabi remains an albatross
around the neck of the Islamist movement; the Islamist movement
remains as an albatross around his neck too. This book illuminates
al-Turabi's life, the human experience of his generation and his
Islamists by brining into sharp focus a-Turabi the man and his
time, without reproducing a giant of either one of them.
This 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 the world that such a state, is
itself an unachievable idea neither by default nor by design. It is
as Hasan al-Turabi himself has stated that his Islamists "tarnished
the Image of Islam." Hasan al-Turabi endured more suffering under
the hands of his merciless disciples more than he suffered from his
enemies. Gallab argues that Islamism like other isms is crucible
for violence and evil. Nevertheless, al-Turabi remains an albatross
around the neck of the Islamist movement; the Islamist movement
remains as an albatross around his neck too. This book illuminates
al-Turabi's life, the human experience of his generation and his
Islamists by brining into sharp focus a-Turabi the man and his
time, without reproducing a giant of either one of them.
Building on his successful book, The First Islamist Republic,
Abdullahi A. Gallab's Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan
from Disintegration to Oblivion deals with Islamism, its
representations, history, and transformations in the region.
Continuing the study of Islamism in power the book affirms the
continuous disintegration of the Islamist movement in the Sudan
taking a critical look at its institutions and their ideological
and rhetorical stances. The book provides an entry point into Hasan
al-Turabi's Islamism, its local regimes and their disintegration.
The book addresses the profound transformations that stem from the
anachronistic qualities of political Islam as it deploys violence
to maintain power. Gallab describes this as savage separation of
religion and state. The main focus of the book is to provide a
socio-historical analysis of developments and transformations of
historic forms of Islamism and its runaway world as well as
situating it in its local and global contexts.
Building on his successful book, The First Islamist Republic,
Abdullahi A. Gallab's Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan
from Disintegration to Oblivion deals with Islamism, its
representations, history, and transformations in the region.
Continuing the study of Islamism in power the book affirms the
continuous disintegration of the Islamist movement in the Sudan
taking a critical look at its institutions and their ideological
and rhetorical stances. The book provides an entry point into Hasan
al-Turabi's Islamism, its local regimes and their disintegration.
The book addresses the profound transformations that stem from the
anachronistic qualities of political Islam as it deploys violence
to maintain power. Gallab describes this as savage separation of
religion and state. The main focus of the book is to provide a
socio-historical analysis of developments and transformations of
historic forms of Islamism and its runaway world as well as
situating it in its local and global contexts.
By adding a new dimension to the ongoing scholarly and political
debate about Islamism or political Islam within the context of
modern politics in Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world,
this study details the development and disintegration of the
Islamists' Republic in the Sudan. The Islamists' regime in the
Sudan has propagated a distinctive ideology whose declared aim was
to create a primary model of an Islamist state.Based on extensive
field work inside and outside the regime, this book is the story of
the social world of Islamism. It provides an entry point into its
local and global worlds as they interact and collide with each
other. By placing considerable emphasis on the theoretical
development and growth of Islamism, this book addresses the
profound transformations in the field of political Islam. Political
scientists, sociologists interested in religion and Middle Eastern
and African scholars should read this book.
"This original and revealing book is a significant contribution to
the understanding of the conflicts that have gripped the Sudan for
decades and may well end only in the division of the
country."--Peter Woodward, author of "Sudan 1898-1989" and "U.S.
Foreign Policy in the Horn of Africa" "A Civil Society Deferred"
chronicles the socio-political history and development of violence
in the Sudan and explores how it has crippled the state, retarded
the development of a national identity, and ravaged the social and
material life of its citizens. It offers the first detailed case
studies of the development of both a colonial and postcolonial
Sudanese state and grounds the violence that grips the country
within the conflict between imperial rule and a resisting civil
society. Abdullahi Gallab establishes his discussion around three
forms of violence: decentralized (individual actors using targets
as a means to express a particular grievance); centralized
(violence enacted illegitimately by state actors); and
"home-brewed" (violence among local actors toward other local
actors). The Turkiyya, the Mahdiyya, the Anglo-Egyptian, and the
postcolonial states have all taken each of these forms to a degree
never before experienced. The same is true for the various social
and political hierarchies in the country, the Islamists, and the
opposing resistance groups and liberation movements. These
dichotomies have led to the creation of a political center that has
sought to extend power and exploit the margins of Sudanese society.
Drawing from academic, archival, and a variety of oral and written
material, as well as personal experience, Gallab offers an original
examination of identity and social formation in the region.
Abdullahi A. Gallab, assistant professor of African and African
American religious studies at Arizona State University, is the
author of "The First Islamist Republic: Development and
Disintegration of Islamism in the Sudan."
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