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The Islam and the “Ism” in Sudanese Islamism
Posted by Heather SharkeyIn this careful and engagingly written analysis of Hasan al-Turabi’s decade in power, Abdullahi A. Gallab concludes that the experience of Sudan during the “first Islamist...
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Violence and the Sudanese Islamists
Posted by Neil McHugh.Abdullahi Gallab’s book The First Islamist Republic is rich in conceptualization and historical perspective, and there are a few major themes that run through it. I will address...
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The Islamism Debate — Abdullahi Gallab Responds
I thank Alex de Waal, Carolyn Fluehr Lobban, Heather Sharkey and Neil McHugh for reading and for your appreciated responses to my book: The First Islamist Republic and for your insightful comments.The...
View ArticlePost Islamism? Questioning the Question (Part 1)
Abdullahi Gallab recalled in his posting of June 18 that the term “post-Islamism” was coined by the sociologist Asef Bayat. Bayat used the term in his now famous 1996 article “The Coming of a...
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Post Islamism? Questioning the Question (Part 2)
The term “Islamism” has two common uses in the study of contemporary Sudan, what I will call “the descriptive” and “the analytical.” Descriptively speaking, Islamism refers to the historical phenomenon...
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Post al-Turabi Islam: Don’t Kill the Message
I recall reading in the 1960s for a wise man who said we keep staging failed revolutions because of the bad books we keep reading about rebellions. On the near-20th anniversary of what Abdullahi Gallab...
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On the Limits of Ideology in Ruling Sudan
Abdullahi Gallab’s book has taken me back in time. Writing nearly twenty years ago I thought that Sudan could not be governed by any ideologically driven regime, and this book clearly shows both one...
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Sudan’s Colonized Judiciary
It’s an unfortunate reality that books on Sudan by Sudanese authors—even those who have a wonderful English writing style, and who deal with their subject matter in a way that combines insight with...
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Rectifying the Neglect of Sudan’s Judiciary
Manichaean Delirium: Decolonizing the Judiciary and Islamic Renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 by Abdullahi Ibrahim.Few have written in detail about the key institution of the Sudan Judiciary, its corps of...
View ArticleThe Darfur Genocide: Ideology of Hatred in a Brokered State
On 23 November 2004 at 6:00 a.m., the village of Adwa in South Darfur was attacked by the Sudanese army and the Janajaweed militia. Most villagers were still asleep, or had woken up for the morning...
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