Sudanese took to the streets in December 2018 and following the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, they have been demanding civilian rule and practicing civil disobedience. As the struggle for the future of the country continues to unfold, Maydan has prepared this non-exhaustive reading list covering Sudanese politics and the role of religion in the African country curated mainly from our Journal Roundups and Book Displays published over the last three years. We hope this roundup will serve as a quick reference list for our readers. If we missed any noteworthy works, please shoot us an email at publish@themaydan.com and we will update the roundup.
Background
Sudan Uprising Master Document
#SudanSyllabus Doc curated by Razan Idris
The Historical Precedents of the Current Uprising in Sudan
Anakwa Dwamena | 8 February 2019
Sudan’s Uprising, Bashir’s Fall, and My Father’s Passing
Isma’il Kushkush | 16 May 2019
Watch: Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj on Sudan
8 June 2019
Watch: Will pressuring Sudan make a difference?
7 June 2019
Listen: What’s Next for Sudan?: Understanding the Overthrow of al-Bashir
Khalid Medani | 12 April 2019
Listen: A Military Crackdown in Sudan
The Daily Podcast | 24 June 2019
Sudan protests: Everything you need to know
29 June 2019
Sudan’s ruling generals, protest leaders sign power-sharing deal
17 July 2019
Watch: Sudan: Hassan Al-Turabi’s Life and Politics
7 August 2019
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Books
Doubt, Scholarship and Society in 17th-Century Central Sudanic Africa
Dorrit Van Dalen | Brill, July 2016
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Noah Salomon | Princeton University Press, October 2016
Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir
Steve Howard | Ohio University Press, October 2016
Shari’a and the Islamic State in 19th-Century Sudan: The Mahdi’s Legal Methodology and Doctrine
Aharon Laysih | Brill, September 2016
Hasan al-Turabi: Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan
W. J. Berridge | Cambridge University Press, September 2017
The Codification of Islamic Criminal Law in the Sudan: Penal Codes and Supreme Court Case Law Under Numayri and al-Bashir
Olaf Köndgen | Brill, November 2017
Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan
Barbara Casciarri | Brill, April 2018
Hasan al-Turabi, the Last of the Islamists: The Man and His Times 1932–2016
Abdullahi A. Gallab | Lexington Books, July 2018
Journal Articles
Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World Vol 14 Issue 1 Brill August 2016
Sudan after Al-Turabi Understanding the Gendered Legacy of Islamism in Sudan and Beyond
Nada Mustafa Ali
The Republican Sisters of Sudan: Moving to the Front Lines of Muslim Social Change
Steve Howard
Islamic Africa: Vol 7 Issue 2 Brill Nov 2016
Probing the Theological Resources of a Seventeenth-Century tārīkh: the Tārīkh al-Sūdān and Ashʿarī kalām
Mohamed Shahid Mathee
Fatwa and Propaganda: Contemporary Muslim Responses to the Sudanese Mahdiyya
Fergus Nicoll
Journal of Africana Religions Vol. 5, No. 1, 2017
Bayyinah Sharrieff: African American Traveler, University of Khartoum Student, Nation of Islam Leader
Edward E. Curtis IV and Sylvester A. Johnson