Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan: The ‘Khartoum Springs’ of 1964 and 1985 (A Modern History of Politics and Violence)

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In the wake of the protests that toppled regimes across the Middle East in 2011, Sudanese activists and writers have proudly cited their very own ‘Arab Springs’ of 1964 and 1985, which overthrew the country’s first two military regimes, as evidence of their role as political pioneers in the region. Even as a few of these claims may be exaggerated, Sudan was once indeed unique in the region at the time in that it witnessed not one but two popular uprisings which successfully uprooted military authoritarianisms.

Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan provides the first scholarly book-length history of the 1964 and 1985 uprisings. It explores the uprisings themselves, their legacy and the recent relevance they hold in the context of the current political climate of the Middle East. The book also contends that any such politics espoused by more than a few kinds of Islamist right through the uprisings can also be interpreted as a form of early ‘post-Islamism’, in which Islamist political agendas were seen to be compatible with liberalism and democracy.

The use of interviews, Arabic language sources and a wealth of archival material, this book is crucial and original study that is of great significance for scholars of African and Middle Eastern political history.

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