Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim
Biographic Data
| ID | 142345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdullahi Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Ibrahim |
| SIGNATURE | IBRAHIM A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Keep These Women Quiet: Colonial Modernity, Nationalism, and the Female Barbarous Custom
This paper revisits the Rufa’a revolt/riot (1946) in the Sudan led by Mahmoud M. Taha, the elderly Islamic, modernist reformer executed by President Nimerie in 1985, to abolish legislation against female circumcision imposed by the British. Although revered as a martyr for his courage facing death for his beliefs, Taha has been unrelentingly castigated for opposing a measure that intended allegedly to rescue women from this barbarous custom. Not …
The House That Matriarchy Built: The Sudanese Women's Union
The emerging view in the scholarship about the Sudanese Women's Union (SWU) is that it was basically the creation of the patriarchal Sudanese Communist Party (SCP). On the contrary, this essay will argue that it was the product of the party's women's cadre. To this effect, the essay revisits a debate about gender and Marxism that took place in the party after the October Revolution of 1964, which led to the enfranchisement of women as full-fledge…
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. By Douglas H. Johnson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. 256. $54.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. This is one of most sober books about Sudan conflict I have ever read. Unlike most scholars study civil war in that country as a revolting occurrence, Douglas Johnson accepts it as a matter of fact and history, referencing American Civil War, the war of ten thousand nasty incidents (p. xx). To level field…
A Theology of Modernity: Hasan al-Turabi and Islamic Renewal in Sudan
Biographers of Hasan al-Turabi, the leader of the Islamic revival in Sudan, are inclined to see his "fundamentalism" as an expression of the religious traditions of the al-Turabis, a lineage of sufis, Mahdis, jurists, and clerics that came into existence in the seventeenth century. This view obscures the politics of a shrewd thinker with a great ability to respond to and effect change. This article examines al-Turabi's religious ideas as a "theol…
Tale of Two Sudanese Courts: Colonial Governmentality Revisited
Investigating the sour grapes of the post-colonial order has led some scholars to revisit colonialism in ways antithetical to the nationalist consecrated rhetoric (Heesterman 1978, 31). In the perspective of this revision, colonialism is seen as its own grave digger. Constrained by conflicting local contexts, colonial administrations, it is argued, had to make ad hoc adjustments (Phillips 1989, 11-12). Decolonization is viewed by these revisionis…
From the Mountains to the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba In to Sudanese Society
From the Mountains to the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba Into Sudanese Society. Leif O. Manger. Uppsala, Sweden: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1994. 173 pp. glossary, bibliography, index
The 1971 Coup in the Sudan and the Radical War of Liberal Democracy in Africa
Research Article| May 01 1996 The 1971 Coup in the Sudan and the Radical War of Liberal Democracy in Africa Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 98–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-1-98 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Fa…
In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan . T. Abdou Maliqim Simone
Assaulting with Words: Popular Discourse and the Bridle of Shari'ah
Saḥir and Muslim Moral Space
Metaphors of the evil eye ( sahir ) are interpreted as posing a threat to the Muslim Arab Rubāṭāb 1 of the Sudan. A common situation in which these metaphors are used is when the speaker (saḥḥār) attempts to cast or “shoot” a sahir metaphor at persons or objects by comparing them to something else. A victim may then try to counteract the shot by uttering protective invocations. The victim's later account of the event in which the evil eye was cas…
Breaking the Pen: (Of Sir Harold ibn MacMichael ibn Hicks) The Ja'aliyyin Identity Revisited
IntroductionContemporary research on the ethnic identity of the Ja'aliyyin of theNorthern Sudan directly challenges the indigenous genealogical tradition thattook its present-day form in the tenth century AH/sixteenth century AC. Theindigenous tradition characterizes the Ja'aliyyin unequivocally as Arabs, whodescended from al- 'Abbas, the paternal uncle of the Prophet Muhammad,(SAAS)' In contrast, MacMichael's A History of the Arubs in the Sudan,…
The Western Sahara conflict: A study in third party mediation
(1988). The Western Sahara conflict: A study in third party mediation. Cambridge Review of International Affairs: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 27-34
Breaking the Pen of Harold Macmichael: The Ja'aliyyin Identity Revisited
Sudanese Historiography and Oral Tradition
One of the most curious aspects of Sudanese historiography is that it has almost completely ignored the ongoing attempts to apply the methods of historical criticism to oral tradition in reconstructing the African past. Though an awareness of these attempts on the part of Sudanese historians is not lacking, it has not gone beyond vague indications, casual remarks, and limited use of oral data. This paper investigates the apathy of Sudanese histor…
Breaking the Pen of Harold Macmichael: The Ja'aliyyin Identity Revisited
Sudanese Historiography and Oral Tradition
One of the most curious aspects of Sudanese historiography is that it has almost completely ignored the ongoing attempts to apply the methods of historical criticism to oral tradition in reconstructing the African past. Though an awareness of these attempts on the part of Sudanese historians is not lacking, it has not gone beyond vague indications, casual remarks, and limited use of oral data. This paper investigates the apathy of Sudanese histor…
Keep These Women Quiet: Colonial Modernity, Nationalism, and the Female Barbarous Custom
This paper revisits the Rufa’a revolt/riot (1946) in the Sudan led by Mahmoud M. Taha, the elderly Islamic, modernist reformer executed by President Nimerie in 1985, to abolish legislation against female circumcision imposed by the British. Although revered as a martyr for his courage facing death for his beliefs, Taha has been unrelentingly castigated for opposing a measure that intended allegedly to rescue women from this barbarous custom. Not …
A Theology of Modernity: Hasan al-Turabi and Islamic Renewal in Sudan
Biographers of Hasan al-Turabi, the leader of the Islamic revival in Sudan, are inclined to see his "fundamentalism" as an expression of the religious traditions of the al-Turabis, a lineage of sufis, Mahdis, jurists, and clerics that came into existence in the seventeenth century. This view obscures the politics of a shrewd thinker with a great ability to respond to and effect change. This article examines al-Turabi's religious ideas as a "theol…
Tale of Two Sudanese Courts: Colonial Governmentality Revisited
Investigating the sour grapes of the post-colonial order has led some scholars to revisit colonialism in ways antithetical to the nationalist consecrated rhetoric (Heesterman 1978, 31). In the perspective of this revision, colonialism is seen as its own grave digger. Constrained by conflicting local contexts, colonial administrations, it is argued, had to make ad hoc adjustments (Phillips 1989, 11-12). Decolonization is viewed by these revisionis…
The 1971 Coup in the Sudan and the Radical War of Liberal Democracy in Africa
Research Article| May 01 1996 The 1971 Coup in the Sudan and the Radical War of Liberal Democracy in Africa Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 98–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-1-98 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Fa…
Saḥir and Muslim Moral Space
Metaphors of the evil eye ( sahir ) are interpreted as posing a threat to the Muslim Arab Rubāṭāb 1 of the Sudan. A common situation in which these metaphors are used is when the speaker (saḥḥār) attempts to cast or “shoot” a sahir metaphor at persons or objects by comparing them to something else. A victim may then try to counteract the shot by uttering protective invocations. The victim's later account of the event in which the evil eye was cas…
Sudanese Historiography and Oral Tradition
One of the most curious aspects of Sudanese historiography is that it has almost completely ignored the ongoing attempts to apply the methods of historical criticism to oral tradition in reconstructing the African past. Though an awareness of these attempts on the part of Sudanese historians is not lacking, it has not gone beyond vague indications, casual remarks, and limited use of oral data. This paper investigates the apathy of Sudanese histor…
Breaking the Pen: (Of Sir Harold ibn MacMichael ibn Hicks) The Ja'aliyyin Identity Revisited
IntroductionContemporary research on the ethnic identity of the Ja'aliyyin of theNorthern Sudan directly challenges the indigenous genealogical tradition thattook its present-day form in the tenth century AH/sixteenth century AC. Theindigenous tradition characterizes the Ja'aliyyin unequivocally as Arabs, whodescended from al- 'Abbas, the paternal uncle of the Prophet Muhammad,(SAAS)' In contrast, MacMichael's A History of the Arubs in the Sudan,…
The Western Sahara conflict: A study in third party mediation
(1988). The Western Sahara conflict: A study in third party mediation. Cambridge Review of International Affairs: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 27-34
Breaking the Pen of Harold Macmichael: The Ja'aliyyin Identity Revisited
Saḥir and Muslim Moral Space
Metaphors of the evil eye ( sahir ) are interpreted as posing a threat to the Muslim Arab Rubāṭāb 1 of the Sudan. A common situation in which these metaphors are used is when the speaker (saḥḥār) attempts to cast or “shoot” a sahir metaphor at persons or objects by comparing them to something else. A victim may then try to counteract the shot by uttering protective invocations. The victim's later account of the event in which the evil eye was cas…
The 1971 Coup in the Sudan and the Radical War of Liberal Democracy in Africa
Research Article| May 01 1996 The 1971 Coup in the Sudan and the Radical War of Liberal Democracy in Africa Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 98–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-1-98 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Fa…
In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan . T. Abdou Maliqim Simone
Assaulting with Words: Popular Discourse and the Bridle of Shari'ah
Tale of Two Sudanese Courts: Colonial Governmentality Revisited
Investigating the sour grapes of the post-colonial order has led some scholars to revisit colonialism in ways antithetical to the nationalist consecrated rhetoric (Heesterman 1978, 31). In the perspective of this revision, colonialism is seen as its own grave digger. Constrained by conflicting local contexts, colonial administrations, it is argued, had to make ad hoc adjustments (Phillips 1989, 11-12). Decolonization is viewed by these revisionis…
From the Mountains to the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba In to Sudanese Society
From the Mountains to the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba Into Sudanese Society. Leif O. Manger. Uppsala, Sweden: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1994. 173 pp. glossary, bibliography, index
A Theology of Modernity: Hasan al-Turabi and Islamic Renewal in Sudan
Biographers of Hasan al-Turabi, the leader of the Islamic revival in Sudan, are inclined to see his "fundamentalism" as an expression of the religious traditions of the al-Turabis, a lineage of sufis, Mahdis, jurists, and clerics that came into existence in the seventeenth century. This view obscures the politics of a shrewd thinker with a great ability to respond to and effect change. This article examines al-Turabi's religious ideas as a "theol…
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. By Douglas H. Johnson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. 256. $54.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. This is one of most sober books about Sudan conflict I have ever read. Unlike most scholars study civil war in that country as a revolting occurrence, Douglas Johnson accepts it as a matter of fact and history, referencing American Civil War, the war of ten thousand nasty incidents (p. xx). To level field…
The House That Matriarchy Built: The Sudanese Women's Union
The emerging view in the scholarship about the Sudanese Women's Union (SWU) is that it was basically the creation of the patriarchal Sudanese Communist Party (SCP). On the contrary, this essay will argue that it was the product of the party's women's cadre. To this effect, the essay revisits a debate about gender and Marxism that took place in the party after the October Revolution of 1964, which led to the enfranchisement of women as full-fledge…
Keep These Women Quiet: Colonial Modernity, Nationalism, and the Female Barbarous Custom
This paper revisits the Rufa’a revolt/riot (1946) in the Sudan led by Mahmoud M. Taha, the elderly Islamic, modernist reformer executed by President Nimerie in 1985, to abolish legislation against female circumcision imposed by the British. Although revered as a martyr for his courage facing death for his beliefs, Taha has been unrelentingly castigated for opposing a measure that intended allegedly to rescue women from this barbarous custom. Not …
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