(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Khartoum March 05 (QNA) - Dr. Hassan Abdullah Turabi a veteran Islamist and Leader of Sudanese Popular Congress Party died Saturday evening at the age of 84 after suffering a heart attack upon which he rushed to Royal Care Hospital in Khartoum where he died reported Sudanese news agency SUNA.
Turabi was born in Kasala Eastern Sudan in 1932. He joined the University of Khartoum1951-1955. He got his MA in law from Oxford University and his PhD from Sorbonne University in France in 1964.
He then joined the university of Khartoum as professor of law and subsequently the dean of the faculty of law. In 1988 he was appointed Minister of Justice and then Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Sudan. He e also served as Attorney General and in 1996 he was Speaker of the Sudanese Parliament.
He was one of the founding leaders of the Islamic Mithag from in the early 1950s where he became its Secretary General in 1964 In 1991 Turabi founded the Popular Arab and Islamic Conference which brought together representative of 45 Arab and Islamic states. He was elected the secretary general of the Congress.He authored a number of books on Islamic jurisdictions.(QNA)