Their Second Republic Islamism in the Sudan from Disintegration to Oblivion

Building on his successful book, The First Islamist Republic, Abdullahi A. Gallab?s Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan from Disintegration to Oblivion deals with Islamism, its representations, history, and transformations in the region. Continuing the study of Islamism in power the book affirms the continuous disintegration of the Islamist movement in the Sudan taking a critical look at its institutions and their ideological and rhetorical stances. The book provides an entry point into Hasan al-Turabi?s Islamism, its local regimes and their disintegration. The book addresses the profound transformations that stem from the anachronistic qualities of political Islam as it deploys violence to maintain power. Gallab describes this as savage separation of religion and state. The main focus of the book is to provide a socio-historical analysis of developments and transformations of historic forms of Islamism and its runaway world as well as situating it in its local and global contexts.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The making of Islamism in the Sudan; Ḥasan al-Turabi: the making and unmaking of al-Turabi’s Islamism (1); Ḥasan al-Turabi: the making and unmaking of al-Turabi’s Islamism (2); In whose image? The same question one more time; Al-Turabi Islamism and its webs of ironies; ›AlÄ« ’Uthmān Moḥamed Ṭaha: when the hurly-burly’s done (1); ›AlÄ« ’Uthmān Moḥamed Ṭaha: when the hurly-burly’s done (2); The great exodus: walking out of the Islamist regime and its state and the liberation and citizenship debate; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Abdullahi A. Gallab is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, USA.