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This essay presents a view of the place of art and Sudanese identity in Hasan al-Turabi’s intellectual project based on a hermeneutical reading of the issues pertaioning to arts and Sudanese identity in his thought in accordanace with the Taw lEdic exegetical method al-Turabi has articulated in the introduction to his Qur’anic exegesis which covers two thirds of the Qur’an. In other words, this hermeneutical reading aspires to understand Turabi’s theses on art and Sudanese identity by comprehending the total methodic positions which he adopted and spelled out in most of his writings. Turabi has made clear his views on the relationship between religion and art whereby he sees both of them as having the symbolic representational ability to express the relationship between the finite human being and the realm of the transcendental and the absolute unseen in different forms and through variegated patterns. As for the question of Sudanese identity, Turabi dealt with it by looking into the dynamics of the coming of to the Sudan and by reflecting on the interaction of both Islam and the Arabic language with the indigenous linguistic and cultural components. Likewise, he sought to expound the meaning, making and manifestations of Sudanese idenetity within the universal ethos of Islam which constitutes a guiding universal principle in his Taw lEdic approach. This reading draws upon a general and principal rule consisting of the need to connect the particular issues which Turabi treated on various occasions the totality of epistemological and methodological propositions on which he built his theses and in the light of which he developed his ideas and positions concerning many issues.
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