Gabriel R Warburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 89929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel R Warburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel R |
| FAMILY NAME | Warburg |
| SIGNATURE | WARBURG G R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Sufism to Fundamentalism: The Mahdiyya and the Wahhabiyya
Both the Wahhabiyya and the Mahdiyya were based on different styles of tajdid (renewal). The Mahdiyya was based on the charisma of its leader and was a leader oriented tajdid movement. The Wahhabiyya, on the other hand, was a message oriented movement, which viewed Sufism with hostility. In contrast to Sufi traditions, which embraced al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, who claimed that he was _Khalifat Rasul Allah, Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab embraced tawhid (Unitarian…
Sudan: Land of Hope or of Sorrow
The search for the sources of the White Nile and Egyptian–Sudanese relations
The exact southernmost source of the White Nile was discovered by the German explorer Burckhardt Waldecker on 12 November 1937. It was a thin trickle of water bubbling from a spring in the hills of Burundi. Other water sources of the Nile start their journey in the snow melt fed creeks of the Mountains of the Moon in Rwanda. ‘Waldecker set up a stela to mark the spot and on the nearest hilltop built a stone pyramid to remind people of the gloriou…
The Reinstatement of Islamic Law in Sudan under Numayrī: An Evaluation of a Legal Experiment in the Light of its Historical Context, Methodology, and Repercussions
The present study examines President Ja'far Numayrī's experiment of reinstating Islamic law in the Sudan and the methods employed to this end, in the light of its historical context and sources of inspiration. Islamist legislation, legal circulars and judicial practice are here utilized as source material for the analysis of the methodology employed in Numayrī's experiment and its application with a view to evaluating their impact on the uncodifi…
British policy towards the Ansar in Sudan: A note on an historical controversy
Following the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan in 1896-98, the basic aim of the new rulers of the so-called Condominium was to eradicate all traces of Mahdism and other forms of what they viewed as 'Muslim fanaticism' and to encourage 'Orthodox Islam', as propagated in al-Azhar. To do so the Mahdiyya was declared illegal and all its writings as well as its prayer book (ratib al-imam al-mahdi) were banned. Sufism was also viewed with suspici…
The Sudan under Islamist rule
On 30 June 1989 a group of army officers seized power in Sudan and overthrew the democratically elected government headed by al‐Mahdi. The coup was engineered by the NIF, founded in 1985 by the Muslim Brothers. This article examines how the Muslim Brothers succeeded in penetrating the army and gaining a foothold within the officer corps, and attempts to explain why a political‐religious movement opted for a military takeover. The political and id…
Historical Discord in the Nile Valley
Part 1 The Turco-Egyptian Sudan and the Mahdiyya: historical introduction European writings on 19th-century Sudan Egyptian writings on 19th-century Sudan Sudanese writings on 19th-century Sudan. Part 2 Independence or unity, 1952-55: historical background some views from Cairo British views from Khartoum and London views from the Sudan. Part 3 Mutual perceptions of Northern and Southern Sudanese: historical background the South as viewed by polit…
The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan
The Condominium revisited: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1934–1956: a review article
The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan has, in recent years, attracted an ever-growing volume of research. In part, this may be attributed to the easier access to archival sources, both in England and—to a lesser extent—in the Nile Valley. In addition, there has evolved an increasing interest in bilateral relations between Egypt and the Sudan, prompted in part by the political outlook of Presidents Sadat and Numayri, and even more important, by the apparent de…
Sudan: Diversity and conflict in an unstable state
The Sudan and Israel: An episode in bilateral relations
Until 1948, both Palestine and the Sudan were effectively under British rule. Though the Sudan was ostensibly an Anglo-Egyptian condominium, it was generally known that the Egyptian government was itself dependent on Whitehall and hence played second fiddle, at best, in matters concerning the Sudan. Palestine had become a British mandatory area after the First World War and consequently was also under HMG's tutelage. It was therefore no wonder th…
The Turco-Egyptian Sudan: A Recent Historiographical Controversy
THE TURCO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN: A RECENT HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CONTROVERSY* BY GABRIEL R. WARBURG Haifa A historiographical study, which attempts to resolve the con- troversy over the Egyptian conquest and rule of the Sudan in 1821- 1881, has recently been published in Cairo. Its author, Dr. cabd al-?Azim Ramadan, is a well known Egyptian historian and a regular contributor to Egyptian weeklies. His book is in fact one of a growing volume of contributions …
Some Social and Economic Aspects of Turco-Egyptian Rule in the Sudan
Between 1821 and 1885 most of the area constituting the present Sudan came under Turko-Egyptian rule. The annexation of the Sudan to Egypt was undertaken in 1820-1 by Muhammad 'Ali, the Ottoman Wali of Egypt, and was completed under his grandson, the Khedive Isma'il, who extended this rule to the Great Lakes in the south and to Bahr al-Ghazal and Darfur in the west. In the history of the Sudan, this period became known as the (first) Turkiyya. Th…
Egypt and the Sudan: Studies in History and Politics
Islam and State in Numayri's Sudan
Opening ParagraphThe relationship between Islam and State has been a problematic feature of Sudanese politics both before independence and after. To a certain extent this is the result of the very nature of Islam in which the unity of 'Church and State' is taken for granted. However, the history of the Sudan has been affected by several other sociopolitical factors which complicated matters even further
Islam and politics in Egypt: 1952–80
political elite which was soon to be embroiled in the first proto-nationalist uprising in the Middle East. Indeed, a list of Afghani's disciples and their followers reads like a 'Who's Who' in Egyptian religious and political leadership. Some of his disciples, like Muhammad Abduh, joined the Urabist movement in 1881-82, helped in formulating its ideology and later led the Islamic reformist movement in Egypt under Cromer's 'guidance'. Others, like…
The Sinai Peninsula Borders, 1906-47
Islam and politics in Egypt: 1952–80
political elite which was soon to be embroiled in the first proto-nationalist uprising in the Middle East. Indeed, a list of Afghani's disciples and their followers reads like a 'Who's Who' in Egyptian religious and political leadership. Some of his disciples, like Muhammad Abduh, joined the Urabist movement in 1881-82, helped in formulating its ideology and later led the Islamic reformist movement in Egypt under Cromer's 'guidance'. Others, like…
From Sufism to Fundamentalism: The Mahdiyya and the Wahhabiyya
Both the Wahhabiyya and the Mahdiyya were based on different styles of tajdid (renewal). The Mahdiyya was based on the charisma of its leader and was a leader oriented tajdid movement. The Wahhabiyya, on the other hand, was a message oriented movement, which viewed Sufism with hostility. In contrast to Sufi traditions, which embraced al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, who claimed that he was _Khalifat Rasul Allah, Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab embraced tawhid (Unitarian…
Sudan: Diversity and conflict in an unstable state
The Sudan and Israel: An episode in bilateral relations
Until 1948, both Palestine and the Sudan were effectively under British rule. Though the Sudan was ostensibly an Anglo-Egyptian condominium, it was generally known that the Egyptian government was itself dependent on Whitehall and hence played second fiddle, at best, in matters concerning the Sudan. Palestine had become a British mandatory area after the First World War and consequently was also under HMG's tutelage. It was therefore no wonder th…
The Sinai Peninsula Borders, 1906-47
The search for the sources of the White Nile and Egyptian–Sudanese relations
The exact southernmost source of the White Nile was discovered by the German explorer Burckhardt Waldecker on 12 November 1937. It was a thin trickle of water bubbling from a spring in the hills of Burundi. Other water sources of the Nile start their journey in the snow melt fed creeks of the Mountains of the Moon in Rwanda. ‘Waldecker set up a stela to mark the spot and on the nearest hilltop built a stone pyramid to remind people of the gloriou…
British policy towards the Ansar in Sudan: A note on an historical controversy
Following the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan in 1896-98, the basic aim of the new rulers of the so-called Condominium was to eradicate all traces of Mahdism and other forms of what they viewed as 'Muslim fanaticism' and to encourage 'Orthodox Islam', as propagated in al-Azhar. To do so the Mahdiyya was declared illegal and all its writings as well as its prayer book (ratib al-imam al-mahdi) were banned. Sufism was also viewed with suspici…
The Sinai Peninsula Borders, 1906-47
Islam and politics in Egypt: 1952–80
political elite which was soon to be embroiled in the first proto-nationalist uprising in the Middle East. Indeed, a list of Afghani's disciples and their followers reads like a 'Who's Who' in Egyptian religious and political leadership. Some of his disciples, like Muhammad Abduh, joined the Urabist movement in 1881-82, helped in formulating its ideology and later led the Islamic reformist movement in Egypt under Cromer's 'guidance'. Others, like…
Islam and State in Numayri's Sudan
Opening ParagraphThe relationship between Islam and State has been a problematic feature of Sudanese politics both before independence and after. To a certain extent this is the result of the very nature of Islam in which the unity of 'Church and State' is taken for granted. However, the history of the Sudan has been affected by several other sociopolitical factors which complicated matters even further
Egypt and the Sudan: Studies in History and Politics
Some Social and Economic Aspects of Turco-Egyptian Rule in the Sudan
Between 1821 and 1885 most of the area constituting the present Sudan came under Turko-Egyptian rule. The annexation of the Sudan to Egypt was undertaken in 1820-1 by Muhammad 'Ali, the Ottoman Wali of Egypt, and was completed under his grandson, the Khedive Isma'il, who extended this rule to the Great Lakes in the south and to Bahr al-Ghazal and Darfur in the west. In the history of the Sudan, this period became known as the (first) Turkiyya. Th…
The Turco-Egyptian Sudan: A Recent Historiographical Controversy
THE TURCO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN: A RECENT HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CONTROVERSY* BY GABRIEL R. WARBURG Haifa A historiographical study, which attempts to resolve the con- troversy over the Egyptian conquest and rule of the Sudan in 1821- 1881, has recently been published in Cairo. Its author, Dr. cabd al-?Azim Ramadan, is a well known Egyptian historian and a regular contributor to Egyptian weeklies. His book is in fact one of a growing volume of contributions …
The Sudan and Israel: An episode in bilateral relations
Until 1948, both Palestine and the Sudan were effectively under British rule. Though the Sudan was ostensibly an Anglo-Egyptian condominium, it was generally known that the Egyptian government was itself dependent on Whitehall and hence played second fiddle, at best, in matters concerning the Sudan. Palestine had become a British mandatory area after the First World War and consequently was also under HMG's tutelage. It was therefore no wonder th…
The Condominium revisited: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1934–1956: a review article
The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan has, in recent years, attracted an ever-growing volume of research. In part, this may be attributed to the easier access to archival sources, both in England and—to a lesser extent—in the Nile Valley. In addition, there has evolved an increasing interest in bilateral relations between Egypt and the Sudan, prompted in part by the political outlook of Presidents Sadat and Numayri, and even more important, by the apparent de…
Sudan: Diversity and conflict in an unstable state
Historical Discord in the Nile Valley
Part 1 The Turco-Egyptian Sudan and the Mahdiyya: historical introduction European writings on 19th-century Sudan Egyptian writings on 19th-century Sudan Sudanese writings on 19th-century Sudan. Part 2 Independence or unity, 1952-55: historical background some views from Cairo British views from Khartoum and London views from the Sudan. Part 3 Mutual perceptions of Northern and Southern Sudanese: historical background the South as viewed by polit…
The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan
The Sudan under Islamist rule
On 30 June 1989 a group of army officers seized power in Sudan and overthrew the democratically elected government headed by al‐Mahdi. The coup was engineered by the NIF, founded in 1985 by the Muslim Brothers. This article examines how the Muslim Brothers succeeded in penetrating the army and gaining a foothold within the officer corps, and attempts to explain why a political‐religious movement opted for a military takeover. The political and id…
British policy towards the Ansar in Sudan: A note on an historical controversy
Following the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan in 1896-98, the basic aim of the new rulers of the so-called Condominium was to eradicate all traces of Mahdism and other forms of what they viewed as 'Muslim fanaticism' and to encourage 'Orthodox Islam', as propagated in al-Azhar. To do so the Mahdiyya was declared illegal and all its writings as well as its prayer book (ratib al-imam al-mahdi) were banned. Sufism was also viewed with suspici…
The Reinstatement of Islamic Law in Sudan under Numayrī: An Evaluation of a Legal Experiment in the Light of its Historical Context, Methodology, and Repercussions
The present study examines President Ja'far Numayrī's experiment of reinstating Islamic law in the Sudan and the methods employed to this end, in the light of its historical context and sources of inspiration. Islamist legislation, legal circulars and judicial practice are here utilized as source material for the analysis of the methodology employed in Numayrī's experiment and its application with a view to evaluating their impact on the uncodifi…
The search for the sources of the White Nile and Egyptian–Sudanese relations
The exact southernmost source of the White Nile was discovered by the German explorer Burckhardt Waldecker on 12 November 1937. It was a thin trickle of water bubbling from a spring in the hills of Burundi. Other water sources of the Nile start their journey in the snow melt fed creeks of the Mountains of the Moon in Rwanda. ‘Waldecker set up a stela to mark the spot and on the nearest hilltop built a stone pyramid to remind people of the gloriou…
Sudan: Land of Hope or of Sorrow
From Sufism to Fundamentalism: The Mahdiyya and the Wahhabiyya
Both the Wahhabiyya and the Mahdiyya were based on different styles of tajdid (renewal). The Mahdiyya was based on the charisma of its leader and was a leader oriented tajdid movement. The Wahhabiyya, on the other hand, was a message oriented movement, which viewed Sufism with hostility. In contrast to Sufi traditions, which embraced al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, who claimed that he was _Khalifat Rasul Allah, Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab embraced tawhid (Unitarian…
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