Abdullahi A Gallab

The First Islamist Republic

Development and Disintegration of Islamism in the Sudan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the story of the social world of Islamism. Based on extensive field work inside and outside the Islamists' regime in the Sudan, it provides an entry point into the regime's local and global worlds as they interact and collide with each other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780754671626
• ISBN-10: 0754671623
• Artikelnr.: 45599335

Autorenporträt

Abdullahi A. Gallab is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
Reflections on Islamism in the Sudan
Elementary forms of the Islamist movement
Competing visions in the aftermath of the October Revolution
From the corporation to the coup
The 1st republic, its sheikh, and community
A call to jihad
End of the 1st republic
The road to Darfur: Islamism without al-Turabi, authoritarianism without Nimairi
Conclusion
Appendix
Index.