Hasan al-Turabi - Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan

A comprehensive study of the life and political thought of Sudanese Islamist scholar and politician Hasan al-Turabi.

List of contents

Introduction: conflicting representations of al-Turabi; 1. Early life and education, 1932-1964; 2. Charisma and its limitations, 1964-1989; 3. Salvation Regime, 1989-1999: 'one-man show'?; 4. Between liberalism and totalitarianism: al-Turabi's Western influences; 5. Reformer or radical? Islamic and Islamist influences; 6. Between global and defensive jihad; 7. The Islamic state: sharia, nationalism and non-Muslim rights; 8. Al-Turabi's Islamist democracy: a valid blueprint?; 9. Champion of the marginalised? The decentralisation strategy; 10. Legacy: Turabism, post-Islamism and neo-fundamentalism.

About the author

Willow Berridge is a Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her research focuses on the twentieth-century Islamic world, focusing on government and Islamic politics in Sudan. She is the author of Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan (2015), focusing on her time spent there during the Arab uprisings in 2011.

Summary

A comprehensive study of the life and political thought of Sudanese Islamist scholar and politician Hasan al-Turabi, for undergraduate and graduate students studying the modern Sudanese state and Islamic government and politics in Africa and the Middle East, and journalists and policy-makers focused on core debates on democracy, Islamism and Jihad.

Product details

• Authors: W. J. Berridge, Willow Berridge, Willow (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Berridge
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781316632406
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63240-6
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sudan, Afrikanische Geschichte, HISTORY / Africa / General, African History