Sudanese thinker, writer and sociologist
Hayder Ibrahim Ali
1943 – 2026
An anthropologist whose work centred on the critique of political Islam, and its destructive role in Sudan and the Arab world. He founded the Sudanese Studies Centre in 1992.
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Books to read in full
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أزمنة الريح والقلق والحرية
القاهرة · 2015
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أزمة الإسلام السياسي: الجبهة الإسلامية نموذجاً
الرباط والقاهرة · 1991
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الدين والثورة: لاهوت التحرير في العالم الثالث
الرباط والقاهرة · 1992
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العلمانية: قضايا أساسية
Hayder Ibrahim Ali2022العلمانية: قضايا أساسية
2022
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خمسون عاماً على ثورة أكتوبر السودانية 1964-2014: نهوض السودان الباكر
2014
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Sudan: Between Reform and Conflict
Political thought in Sudan generally avoids the issue of reform, since the very notion falls short of the political and developmental ambitions the country has harboured since independence, in 1956. The Sudanese people believe that they are more advanced democratically than other Arab and African countries, since they have known party pluralism, even a Communist Party, and the two popular intifadas (uprisings) against dictatorial regimes had been victorious, and had succeeded in reinstating democracy.
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