The Islamic Liberation Front was founded in March 1949 by Mirghani Al-Nasri. The party spread amongst
University of Khartoum 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
self-determination in
Cairo, 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
anti-imperialist,
anti-capitalist and
socialist. 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
trade unions of workers, farmers, students and intellectuals in Sudan. In 1956, after the
tripartite invasion of
Egypt by
Britain,
France and
Israel, which led to wide Arab support for
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the group developed an emphasis on
Pan-Arabism and liberation. After the
Islamic Charter Front 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. ==References==