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Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir

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Description for Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBS; BK; HBJH; HRHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
Steve Howard departed for the 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 the early days of Sudan's anticolonial struggle, but quickly turned his movement into a religious reform effort based on his radical reading of the Qur'an. He was executed in 1985 for apostasy. Decades after returning to the life of an academic in the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821422311
SKU
V9780821422311
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About Steve Howard
Steve Howard is a professor of media studies and African studies and the director of the Ohio University Center for International Studies. A sociologist by training, he has studied and worked all over the African continent. He directed Ohio University's African Studies Program for twenty-five years and has published several scholarly articles about the Republican Brotherhood Movement.

Reviews for Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir
Steve Howard has produced an ethnography of a modern Muslim movement in the contemporary Sudan that is original, informative, and beautifully conceived. It is a unique (and uniquely informative), accessible, and moving journey of discovery that makes a major contribution to our understanding of Islam in the Sudan and in the contemporary world.
Lidwien Kapteijns, professor of African ... Read more

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