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“This is not Your Time Here” Islamic Fundamentalism and Art in Sudan: An African Artist Interviewed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Constance L. Kirker
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Among the changes and currents in the politics of African nations today are some the West “approves of,” for example, the trend toward multi-party systems. Others threaten civil liberties and the establishment of democratic states, in particular, the freedom of artistic expression implied in liberal democracy. “Islamic Fundamentalism” is seen by many in the West as especially threatening.

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Research Article
Information
African Issues , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , Summer 1992 , pp. 5 - 11
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1992 

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Constance L. Kirker teaches Art and Art History at Penn State University Delaware County in Media, where in 1991-92 she helped coordinate the Cultures of Africa program. Ahmed A. Elmardi is a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1991-92.

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Notes

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2. Grabar, Oleg, “Islamic Art: Art of a Culture or Art of a Faith?” Art and Archaeology Papers (AARP) v. 9, April 1976, p. 3 Google Scholar.

3. Bravmann, Rene, African Islam, Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 88 Google Scholar.

4. Ibid., p. 13.

5. Marty, Martin E. and Appleby, R. Scott, Fundamentalisms Observed, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1991, p. 347 Google Scholar.

6. Bravmann, op. cit., p. 88.

7. Ettinghausen, Richard, “The Man-Made Setting,” in Lewis, Bernard, ed., The World of Islam, London, Thames and Hudson, 1976, p. 70 Google Scholar.

8. Janson, H. W., History of Art, New York, Abrams, 4th edition, 1991, p. 188 Google Scholar.

9. Quoted in Marshall Mount, African Art, The Years Since 1920, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1973, p. 108.