Turabi seemed to recognize that, in the ruins of his own making in Sudan, his countrymen required a new notion of Islam and government.
Dr Paul Moller, a Canadian-born inventor, engineer and university professor, first took to the sky in an aircraft of his own making in 1966.
He already faces a catastrophe largely of his own making in the far western province of Darfur, along with a demoralised army and a rural population fed up with repression and poverty.
He beat the odds time and again as he shepherded his PLO through the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli conflicts and a pair of military disasters of his own making in Jordan and Lebanon.
+ A librarian in China confessed to stealing over 140 paintings from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and replacing them with works of his own making in either an act of shameless self-promotion, high art theft, or world-class hijinks.
He stated that God, in his making of the universe, had already planned the fate of humanity and the individual.
It's allowed his critics to question just how much his decision-making in governing is dependent on safeguarding his financial interests.
His many recordings are a fantastic legacy, but so, too, are the memories that so many people will cherish of his music-making in the concert hall, and his encouragement of young musicians.
