al-Sadiq al-Mahdi wa-al-inkifa'iyah wa-daawa al-tajdid by Qaray, Umar - 2007

Minor rubbing. VG. Sudan Dar Azzah al-Khartum [Sudan] 2007 orig. wrappers 24x15cm, 167 pp. Text entirely in Arabic. Biography of Sudanese political leader Sadiq al- Mahdi ["...,.head of the National Umma Party and Imam of the Ansar, a sufi sect that pledges allegiance to Muhammad Ahmad who claimed to be Islam's messianic saviour, or the Mahdi...,.In 1986, Sadiq formed a coalition government comprising the Umma Party (which he led); the National Islamic Front (led by his brother-in-law, Hassan al-Turabi); the Democratic Unionist Party (led by al-Sayyid Muhammad Othman al-Mirghani); and four small Southern parties. On June 30, 1989, his government was overthrown in a coup led by Omar al-Bashir. The post of Prime Minister of Sudan was then abolished..,." - wikipedia].