Section I: Introductory
Chapter 1: More than a Grain of Sand: Opening Outward—Sudanese Thought in a Globalized Milieu
Sondra Hale
Chapter 2: Capturing Cultural Capital: Where to Start, and Which Ideas Matter?
Gada Kadoda
Section II: Ghosts and Beacons
Chapter 3: Visitations: Dialogue with the Ghost of Dr. John Garang
Francis Mading Deng
Chapter 4: The Beacon: A Glimpse of Suad Ibrahim Ahmed’s Intellectual Life
Fatima Babiker Mahmoud, with an Addendum by Mohamed Suliman and Azza Mohamed
Section III: Hybridities and Ambiguities
Chapter 5: The Invention of the Northern Sudanese
Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim
Chapter 6: The Rise and Decline of the Hybridity Thesis in the Intellectual Discourse on Identity: The Sudan Example
Mohamed Abusabib
Section IV: The Production of Intellectuals
Chapter 7: Interrogating the Dilemma of Sudanese Academics: Producing Knowledge or Recycling Ideologies
Atta El-Battahani
Chapter 8: The Pioneering Women’s and Gender Studies Intellectuals in Sudan: Ahfad University for Women
Balghis Badri and Mai Izeldeen
Section V: Marginalized Intellectual Communities
Chapter 9: “Peace-building” as Thought and Practice in the Nuba Mountains before 2011
Enrico Ille and Mariam Sharif
Chapter 10: Portrait of a Woman of Courage: Awadeya Koko, Organic Intellectual
Mai Azzam and Sana Makawi
Chapter 11: Life as an Act of Resistance: On Politics and Ideas—Youth Movements in Sudan
Wini Omer
Section VI: Mahdists, Feminists, and Humanists
Chapter 12: Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi’s Intellectualism: Searching the Iceberg
Rabah Al Sadig
Chapter 13: Transforming Lives: Fatima Babiker’s Feminist Trajectories
Amani El Jack
Chapter 14: Francis Mading Deng: Ideas for Bridging Boundaries, Managing Diversity and Reconciling Differences
Daniel Jok Deng and Luka Biong D. Kuol