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Sudán: ¿islam africano e islam árabe? Dicotomías del islam, el islamismo y el sufismo

2019; University of Seville; Issue: 41 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12795/araucaria.2019.i41.21

2340-2199

Rafael Ortega,

Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria

The analysis of Islam in Sudan shows the great variety of approaches to the object of study, the diversity of its readings and the repeated recourse to religious principles to justify or legitimize political and State issues.Sudanese Islam, in its different manifestations, has crossed national borders and has contributed to African, Arab and world Islam.This has been like this since the first Islamic proto-state emerged in the Nineteenth century at the hands of the messianic figure who was Muhammad Ahmad Ibn Abdallah, the Mahdi until the thinker and statesman Hasan al-Turabi in the Twentieth century.Three dimensions will be analyzed: the reformist Islam of Mahmud Muhammad Taha, the Sudanese Islamism led by al-Turabi and the role of Sufism in popular religiosity and Sudanese politics, and finally the recent confrontation with the Salafi tendencies active in the country in what seems to be a new struggle for the socio-religious space of the 21st century.