Hassan al-Turabi

Hassan al-Turabi was a Sudanese politician and scholar. He was the alleged architect of the 1989 Sudanese military coup that overthrew Sadiq al-Mahdi and installed Omar al-Bashir as president. He has been called "one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese politics" and a "longtime hard-line ideological leader". He was instrumental in institutionalizing Sharia in the northern part of the country and was frequently imprisoned in Sudan, but these "periods of detention" were "interspersed with periods of high political office".

1 February 1932

Born on the same birth day (1 February): Brett Anderson (baseball) • Camargo Guarnieri • Conn Smythe • Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg • George Beverly Shea • George Hendric Houghton • José Luis Cuciuffo • Linus Roache • Michael C. Hall • Normie Rowe • Patricia Robins • Rich Williams • Rick James • Therese Brandl • Tim Harding (musician) • Tomáš Vlasák • Valentín Elizalde

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