Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir

by W. Stephen Howard and Steve Howard

Book Overview

Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would join and live with the Republican Brotherhood, the Sufi Muslim group led by the visionary Mahmoud Mohamed Taha. Taha was a religious intellectual who participated in the early days of Sudan's anticolonial struggle, but quickly turned his movement into a religious reform effort based on his radical reading of the Qur'an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821422316
• ISBN13: 9780821422311
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"