Reviews for Islam, Sectarianism, and Politics in the Sudan since the Mahdiyya

The average rating for Islam, Sectarianism, and Politics in the Sudan since the Mahdiyya based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-08 00:00:00 Gaile Price A vomit-inducing, hardcore anti-communist apologia for not only (many elements of) the mujahideen and the Taliban, but also US support for them. Diatribe after diatribe against *any* communist movement or initiative (even equality for women is derided as purely opportunistic and only "on paper," lol), with praise and love for any reactionary turd taking up arms against Kabul. It's stunning that the U.S. invasion near the end of the book is treated benignly. It is not presented as a menace, merely an auxiliary force to some sort of "legitimate" Afghan presence via the Northern Alliance (neither the Khalq or Parcham of the PDPA are *ever* treated as legitimate). None of this is to mention the shoddy research itself, the lack of adequate citations, the paucity of any serious primary source documentation, etc. Worth the read only to see the sort of apologetics and propaganda employed by Western intellectuals to mirror US foreign policy imperatives. Looking forward to Beverly Male's Revolutionary Afghanistan after arduously traversing through this drivel.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-01-02 00:00:00 Joe Cook See my note on it in my blog: