Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A movement that sought to liberate women
For most of the remaining years of his life, Taha confined himself to guiding the activities of the organization by then known as the "Republican Brothers", which included a growing number of female members. Both male and female members of the organization continued to propagate the Second Message of Islam despite harassment by some officials and members of the security forces. Since it was crucial to Taha that he should practice what he preached, he tried to establish a community, which applied, as far as possible, the main tenets of his vision of Islam. As a small community within Sudanese society, the Republicans were unable to implement the full scope of their beliefs in the Organization of the Sudanese state, but they strove to lead their personal lives and organize their own community in accordance with those beliefs. In particular, the community largely succeeded in applying the principles of equality between men and women, without discrimination on grounds of #######. Women members participated fully in all the group's activities, and they were often leaders of activist groups on university campuses and in public parks and street corners – a highly controversial practice in the patriarchal Sudanese society. This was such a hallmark of the movement that when the leadership of the organization was detained without charge in mid-1983, four women were among their number.

The group's practice in relation to contracting marriage is illustrative of the members' determination to implement their reform in light of the prevailing social customs.



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