The Islamic Socialist Party () is a

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ese political party. It re-formed in 1964 under this name following a split in the Islamic Liberation Front (), originally founded in 1949.

History

The Islamic Liberation Front was founded in March 1949 by Mirghani Al-Nasri. The party spread amongst

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and secondary school students. It was a revivalist Islamic movement with a tendency of locality and nationality. In 1951, the front's candidates won the elections to the leadership of the University of Khartoum Student Union (KUSU), as well as student unions at some secondary schools. Following the 1953 agreement between Sudanese political parties for

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, the front's name was changed to ''Gama'a Islamyia''. The new organization published its constitution and manifesto expounding the main principles of the former Islamic Liberation Movement, which were

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and

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. The manifesto was titled "Al-Gama'a Al-Islamya Daw'a wa Minhag" (The Gama'a Islamyia: A call and a program). The movement directed its efforts towards the

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s of workers, farmers, students and intellectuals in Sudan. In 1956, after the tripartite invasion of

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and

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, which led to wide Arab support for

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, the group developed an emphasis on

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and liberation. After the

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split from the group as a separate party under Hassan Al-Turabi in 1964, Al-Nasri co-founded the Islamic Socialist Party with Babikir Karrar, another leader in the movement.

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