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Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir
Steve Howard
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Description for Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBS; BK; HBJH; HRHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 413.
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 United States, Howard brings us this memoir ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821422304
SKU
V9780821422304
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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
“It was amazing timing then for this insightful American-trained social scientist to observe a modernist nonviolent Islamic movement at the peak of its dynamic campaign. It is even more amazing timing now for this rigorous and incisive study of Islamic modernity to be available to scholars, students, and the public at large. This profound assessment of a fascinating expression of ... Read more