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Sudan
Index
The Muslim Brotherhood, which originated in Egypt, has been
active in Sudan since its formation there in 1949. It emerged
from Muslim student groups that first began organizing in the
universities during the 1940s, and its main support base has
remained the college educated. The Muslim Brotherhood's objective
in Sudan has been to institutionalize Islamic law throughout the
country. Hassan Abd Allah at Turabi, former dean of the School of
Law at the University of Khartoum, had been the Muslim
Brotherhood's secretary general since 1964. He began working with
Nimeiri in the mid-1970s, and, as his attorney general in 1983,
played a key role in the controversial introduction of the
sharia. After the overthrow of Nimeiri, Turabi was instrumental
in setting up the NIF, a Brotherhood-dominated organization that
included several other small Islamic parties. Following the 1989
coup, the RCC-NS arrested Turabi, as well as the leaders of other
political parties, and held him in solitary confinement for
several months. Nevertheless, this action failed to dispel a
pervasive belief in Sudan that Turabi and the NIF actively
collaborated with the RCC-NS. NIF influence within the government
was evident in its policies and in the presence of several NIF
members in the cabinet.
Data as of June 1991
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