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Sudan
Index
A small but influential religious party in the early 1980s
was the Republican Brothers. A Sufi shaykh, Mahmud Muhammad Taha,
founded the Republican Brothers in the 1950s as an Islamic reform
movement stressing the qualities of tolerance, justice, and
mercy. Taha came to prominence in 1983 when he opposed Nimeiri's
implementation of the sharia as being contrary to the essence of
Islam. He was arrested and subsequently executed for heresy in
January 1985. The execution of such a widely revered religious
figure--Taha was seventy-six--aroused considerable revulsion in
Sudan and was one of the factors that helped precipitate the coup
against Nimeiri. Although the Republican Brothers survived the
loss of its leader and participated in the political process
during the parliamentary period, it has not been politically
active since 1989.
Data as of June 1991
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