وقائع ندوة: أنا ماركسي على طريقتي و لا أرى في قانون الشريعة من بأسٍ: عبد الله علي إبراهيم مثالا

Quote: Hasan al-Turabi and his Theology of Modernity I will discuss the virulent Islamic revival, led by Hasan al-Turabi, a graduate of London University and the Sorbonne, as a ‘family romance’ writ large. Unlike other ‘biographies’ of al-Turabi which ignore his childhood, the chapter reconstructs al-Turabi’s religious experience to better understand the imagination and politics of his movement. As a son of a qadi, born on the wrong side of the Manichaean divide, al- Turabi was traumatized by the colonial emasculation of his father and home. He scripted a unitary world of politics and religion to shore up the possibilities of father and home. By grounding politics in religion, al-Turabi appropriated Islam from impotent clerics who, irrespective of their personal beliefs, allowed Islam to recede from public life.