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Modern Muslims : a Sudan memoir / Steve Howard.
Van Pelt Library BP188.8.S8 H69 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howard, W. Stephen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Howard, W. Stephen--Religion.
- Howard, W. Stephen.
- Howard, W. Stephen--Travel--Sudan.
- Ikhwān al-Jumhūrīyūn.
- Sufism--Sudan--History--20th century.
- Sufism.
- Islam--Sudan--History--20th century.
- Islam.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Sudan--Politics and government--1956-1985.
- Sudan.
- Politics and government.
- Sudan--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 217 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Steve Howard departed for Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would join and live with the Republican Brotherhood, the Sufi Muslim group led by the visionary Mahmoud Mohamed Taha. Taha was a religious intellectual who participated in Sudan's anti-colonial straggle and then turned his movement into a reform effort based on his radical reading of the Qur'an. He was executed in 1985 for apostasy. Howard's memoir traces his time with the Republican Brotherhood, who advocated, among other things, equality for women, and in the process otters an insider's perspective on a modernist nonviolent Islamic movement. When the Brotherhood was thrust into confrontation with Sudan's oppressive government, Howard had a frontline perspective on the difficult choices communities make as they try to reform and practice their faith freely. An important book for our times, Modem Muslims yields significant insights for our understanding of modern Islam and African history. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Noon
- Unity
- The path of the prophet
- A human rights culture
- A women's movement
- Communicating Islamic reform: Small media, big ideas
- A modern Muslim
- Epilogue: Freedom
- Appendix: "Either this or the flood".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209).
- ISBN:
- 9780821422304
- 0821422308
- 9780821422311
- 0821422316
- OCLC:
- 950445742
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