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'The Nile waters are central to the politics of north-east Africa, and Sudan is central to the hydropolitics of the Nile. Harry Verhoeven's superb study reaches deep into the complex issues of water, religion, and political power that have shaped the Islamist regime in Khartoum and reveals both its ambitions and its looming failure.' Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge 'Harry Verhoeven opens a new window on the Sudanese state and brings fresh air into our understanding of its politics. Drawing on interviews with many insiders, he illustrates the dilemmas faced by the current regime in promoting large-scale agriculture and dam construction. While claiming 'modernization' within the Islamic project, the program has benefited the core elite but marginalized others. Violence and widespread disaffection persisted even after the 2011 secession of South Sudan. This is an original and convincing study with wide relevance.' Wendy James, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford 'What a fascinating book Harry Verhoeven has written, which elucidates how the Al-Ingaz has combined water resource endowment with the civilization of the Nile Valley to consolidate power in Sudan in advancing its Islamic ideology. The author identifies the centrality of development agenda, than religion, in Al-Ingaz vision of an Islamic Sudanese state. What the author calls 'hydro-agricultural mission' is demonstrated, in my view, by the Merowe dam underpinning the Islamic ideology of Al-Ingaz. This is a must read book for those who would like to understand the resilience of an Islamic Project of Al-Ingaz in Sudan and beyond.' Lual A. Deng, Member of South Sudan National Legislative Assembly and Managing Director of Ebony Center for Strategic Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 'Professor Harry Verhoeven offers us an innovative, penetrating analysis of the Sudanese state and its Dam Implementation Unit. A must-read for scholars of the hydropolitics of the Nile.' Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 'Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan offers complex arguments on political and environmental movements in Africa, which is still unknown to many scholars studying the continent. If it is adopted for an African studies course, it should be read by graduate students.' Nadine Hunt, African Studies Quarterly 'Harry Verhoeven has compiled a compelling study on Sudan that deserves the label 'seminal'. It is without question that his Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan is an essential read for students of modern Sudan. It is therefore a highly recommended acquisition for any librarian with responsibility for African affairs.' John Anthony Allan and Martin Keulertz, Sudans Studies Association Bulletin

'The Nile waters are central to the politics of north-east Africa, and Sudan is central to the hydropolitics of the Nile. Harry Verhoeven's superb study reaches deep into the complex issues of water, religion, and political power that have shaped the Islamist regime in Khartoum and reveals both its ambitions and its looming failure.' Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge 'Harry Verhoeven opens a new window on the Sudanese state and brings fresh air into our understanding of its politics. Drawing on interviews with many insiders, he illustrates the dilemmas faced by the current regime in promoting large-scale agriculture and dam construction. While claiming 'modernization' within the Islamic project, the program has benefited the core elite but marginalized others. Violence and widespread disaffection persisted even after the 2011 secession of South Sudan. This is an original and convincing study with wide relevance.' Wendy James, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford 'What a fascinating book Harry Verhoeven has written, which elucidates how the Al-Ingaz has combined water resource endowment with the civilization of the Nile Valley to consolidate power in Sudan in advancing its Islamic ideology. The author identifies the centrality of development agenda, than religion, in Al-Ingaz vision of an Islamic Sudanese state. What the author calls 'hydro-agricultural mission' is demonstrated, in my view, by the Merowe dam underpinning the Islamic ideology of Al-Ingaz. This is a must read book for those who would like to understand the resilience of an Islamic Project of Al-Ingaz in Sudan and beyond.' Lual A. Deng, Member of South Sudan National Legislative Assembly and Managing Director of Ebony Center for Strategic Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 'Professor Harry Verhoeven offers us an innovative, penetrating analysis of the Sudanese state and its Dam Implementation Unit. A must-read for scholars of the hydropolitics of the Nile.' Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Harry Verhoeven teaches African Politics at Oxford and is the founder and convenor of the University of Oxford China-Africa Network, as well as the founder of the Oxford Central Africa Forum. He has collaborated with UNDP Sudan, Chatham House, Greenpeace India, and Small Arms Survey and has lectured at ministries of foreign affairs, defence academies, and leading universities around the world. He has published in Civil War; Conflict, Security and Development, Development and Change, Geopolitics, the Journal of Eastern African Studies, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Middle East Policy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the Review of African Political Economy, and The Washington Quarterly. He has recently been appointed to a professorship in Comparative Politics and International Relations at Georgetown University, Washington DC.

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