Sudanese Islamic leader al-Tayyib Zain al-Abidin died today, Thursday, at the age of 81, after suffering from illness. The late Prime Minister Abdullah Hamduk mourned.
"We mourn with a heart full of sadness and sorrow, Professor El-Tayeb Zein El-Abidine, one of the symbols of knowledge and knowledge and the owner of high heels in political principles and ethics," said Hamdouk.
Al-Tayeb Zain Al-Abidin was born in the city of Al-Duwaim (Central) in 1939, and he graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Khartoum, and obtained a master's degree from the University of London, and a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, UK as well.
Zine El Abidine chaired the Shura Council of the Islamic Movement from 1978 to 1984, and he is one of the few Islamists who had reservations about the 1989 coup led by former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
After al-Bashir’s coup, Zine El Abidine left Sudan to work at the International Islamic University in Pakistan, as vice president of academic affairs and dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law, but he returned again, and was appointed to the Department of Political Science at the University of Khartoum, and received a degree of professorship from her in 1997.