This book highlights the neglected contribution of an African Muslim thinker to global intellectual history. Based on meticulous research, it reveals the roots of Mamd Muammad ahas modernist reform in the mystical and millenarian traditions of Islam. As such it fills a gap in the historiography of Muslim modernist thought and of the modern Sudan. - Oliver Scharbrodt, author of Muhammad Abduh: Modern Islam and the Culture of Ambiguity.
Hoebink analyzes Mamd Muammad ahas life and thought in the context of a wide range of intellectual traditions western and eastern, local Sudanese and global, as well as premodern Sufi and modern esoteric and idealist. He shows how Ustdh Mamd and the Sudan were an integral part of world-wide intellectual developments. A must read for students of both Sudanese and Islamic history. - Lidwien Kapteijns, author of Stringing Coral Beads: The Religious Poetry of Brava (c. 1890 -1975)
