Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir

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Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would sign up for and live with the Republican Brotherhood, the Sufi Muslim group led by the visionary Mahmoud Mohamed Taha. Taha was once a non secular intellectual who participated in the early days of Sudan’s anticolonial struggle, but quickly turned his movement into a non secular reform effort based on his radical reading of the Qur’an. He was once executed in 1985 for apostasy.

Decades after returning to the life of an academic in the USA, Howard brings us this memoir of his time with the Republican Brotherhood, who advocated, among other things, equality for women. Modern Muslims describes Howard’s path to learning not only about Islam and Sufism but also about Sudan’s history and culture. When the Brotherhood was once thrust into disagreement with Sudan’s then-president Jaafar Nimeiry, Howard had a front-line point of view on the difficult choices communities make as they are trying to reform and practice their faith freely.

As well as a story of personal transformation, the book offers an insider’s point of view on a modernist nonviolent Islamic movement that thrived and was once brutally suppressed. The most important book for our times, Modern Muslims yields significant insights for our understanding of brand new Islam, African history, and recent geopolitics.

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