Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
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Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, (1909 – 18 January 1985; Arabic: محمود محمد طه) also known as Ustaz Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, was a Sudanese religious thinker, leader, and trained engineer. He developed what he called the "Second Message of Islam", which postulated that the verses of the Qur'an revealed in Medina were appropriate in their time as the basis of Islamic law, (Sharia), but that the verses revealed in Mecca represented the ideal religion, would be revived when humanity had reached a stage of development capable of accepting them, ushering in a renewed Islam based on freedom and equality.
He was executed for apostasy for his religious preaching at the age of 76 by the regime of Gaafar Nimeiry.
Taha was hanged in 1985 under the sharia regime of Jaafar al-Nimeiri.
