Political Vocabulary of Islam

This book is a detailed survey of Hasan al-Turabi' s lexicon of political Islam. It looks at the various ways in which Africa' s leading Islamist construes key words in the Qur' an and in Arabic at large--terms like freedom, rights, and republic--and relates them to present-day contexts of an Islamic state. This is a rich study of the discourse of political Islam and how the most powerful tool of persuasion continues to evolve in tandem with the cultural, social, and political requirements of our age.