Hassan al-Turabi: what Wikipedia removed
Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese Islamist leader behind the 1989 coup who imposed Sharia law and whose government hosted Osama bin Laden. The 2010 opening described a period shaped by “punishment for Sudan’s assistance to Egyptian terrorists in their attempt to assassinate” the Egyptian president. Today the word appears 0 times in the opening, though it survives six times in the body. A reader today does not learn from the opening that Sudan was sanctioned specifically for backing the terrorists behind an assassination attempt.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 6. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| islamist | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| jihad | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The direct description of him as a religious and Islamist political leader left the opening.
- An older phrasing of a quoted characterization, reworded when the opening was rewritten.
- An older phrasing describing his leadership of the National Islamic Front, reworded when the opening was rewritten.
- His 1979 appointment as Minister of Justice, moved out of the opening.
- The statement that Sudan was punished for assisting Egyptian terrorists in an assassination attempt left the opening.
- The detail of his imprisonment in Khartoum’s Kobar prison, moved out of the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 17942333):
Dr. Hassan ‘Abd Allah al-Turabi (الدكتور حسن عبد الله الترابي in Arabic ), commonly called Hassan al-Turabi (sometimes transliterated Hassan al-Tourabi ) (حسن الترابي), is a political and religious leader in Sudan , who may have been instrumental in institutionalizing Islamic Sharia law in the northern part of the country. He was influential as a government figure under several heads of state in the country, but was put in a Khobar (Cooper) prison in Khartoum on the orders of his one-time ally, current president Omar al-Bashir in March 2004 . He was released on June 28 , 2005 . Recent reports have suggested that ( as of 2004 ), Turabi is associated with the JEM (Justice and Equality Movement…
2025 (revision 1264199700):
Sudanese religious and political leader (1932–2016) Not to be confused with Allama Hassan Turabi . Hassan al-Turabi ( Arabic : حسن الترابي , romanized : Ḥasan al-Turābī ; 1 February 1932 – 5 March 2016) was a Sudanese politician and scholar. He was the alleged architect of the 1989 Sudanese military coup that overthrew Sadiq al-Mahdi and installed Omar al-Bashir as president . He has been called “one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese politics ” and a “longtime hard-line ideological leader”. He was instrumental in institutionalizing Sharia (Islamic law) in the northern part of the country and was frequently imprisoned in Sudan , but these “periods of detention” were “interspe…
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