1. Ismail al-Azhari was a Sudanese nationalist and political figure.
11 Facts About Ismail al-Azhari
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Ismail al-Azhari served as the first Prime Minister of Sudan between 1954 and 1956, and as Head of State of Sudan from 1965 until he was overthrown by Gaafar Nimeiry in 1969.
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Ismail al-Azhari was president of the National Unionist Party when the unionist parties united under his leadership.
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Ismail al-Azhari assumed the post of president of the Council of Sovereignty after the revolution of October 1964 during the second period of democracy.
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Ismail al-Azhari was arrested during the May 1969 coup and imprisoned in Cooper prison and when his health declined, he was admitted to hospital, where he remained until his death.
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Ismail al-Azhari joined the Gordon College in 1917 but he did not complete his education there.
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Ismail al-Azhari worked at Atbara and Omdurman primary schools, then he went on to study at the American University of Beirut and he returned there in 1930.
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Ismail al-Azhari was appointed by the Gordon College and he founded the Association of Arts and Correspondence.
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The third problem which confronted Ismail al-Azhari's government was the uniting of the black, non-Muslim southern Sudanese with peoples and traditions very different if not opposed to the Arab, Muslim north.
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In 1961 Ismail al-Azhari was arrested and exiled to Juba in southern Sudan for several months.
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Ismail al-Azhari remained president until May 1969, when a military coup d'etat led by Col.