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The Islamist movement in Sudan started in universities and high schools as early as the 1940s under the influence of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. [1] The Islamic Liberation Movement, a precursor of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood, began in 1949. [1] Hassan Al-Turabi then took control of it under the name of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood. [1]
The Muslim Brotherhood/NIF's main objective in Sudan was to Islamize the society "from above" and to institutionalize the Islamic law throughout the country where they succeeded. To that end the party infiltrated the top echelons of the government where the education of party cadre, frequently acquired in the West, made them "indispensable".
Muslim Brotherhood The National Islamic Front ( NIF ; Arabic : الجبهة الإسلامية القومية ; transliterated : al-Jabhah al-Islamiyah al-Qawmiyah ) was an Islamist political organization founded in 1976 [ 1 ] and led by Dr. Hassan al-Turabi that influenced the Sudanese government starting in 1979, and dominated it from 1989 to ...
Following the 7th century Muslim conquest of Egypt and the 8th-century Muslim conquest of North Africa, Arab Muslims began leading trade expeditions into Sub-Saharan Africa, first towards Nubia, and later across the Sahara into West Africa. Much of this contact was motivated by interest in trans-Saharan trade, particularly the slave trade.
A movement that spread widely in Sudan in the 1960s, responding to the efforts to secularize Islamic society, was the Muslim Brotherhood (Al Ikhwan al Muslimin). Originally the Muslim Brotherhood, often known simply as the Brotherhood, was conceived as a religious revivalist movement that sought to return to the fundamentals of Islam in a way ...
al-Turabi was born on 1 February 1932 in Kassala, [11] eastern Sudan, to a Sufi Muslim sheikh, and received an Islamic education, [12] before coming to Khartoum in 1951 to study law and joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a student. [13]
President al-Bashir's government was dominated by members of Sudan's National Islamic Front (NIF), a fundamentalist political organization formed from the Muslim Brotherhood in 1986. In 1998, the NIF founded the National Congress Party (NCP) as its legal front. the NCP/NIF dominates much of Khartoum's overall domestic and foreign policies ...
The strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood in Khartoum was to target students at Khartoum University through their created “Students Unity Front.” [9] Hassan al Turabi was one of the primary Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Sudan, who advocated a restructuring of the group's organization as opposed to an armed struggle. Under Turabi, the Sudanese ...