| | While Islamic fundamentalism has become a major political force in the Arab world in recent years, particularly in the countries of the Maghreb, it is in Sudan where the Islamist movement has realised its greatest ambition: controlling the levers of state power and setting itself up as a model for similarly oriented movements. Its leaders in Sudan have actively supported groups elsewhere - reportedly helping to plan a recent failed coup in Tunis and convening meetings with high officials of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Khartoum. According to Hazim Saghyia ('as-Sudan wa usuliyyun al-magreb al-arabi' , Al Hayat, 1991) fundamentalist groups in Tunisia and Algeria are increasingly looking to the experiment in Sudan as the model to emulate in their efforts at taking state control. |
