The Politicisation Of Islam

A Case Study Of Tunisia
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8133-3888-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 329 g

The Politicisation of Islam: A Case Study of Tunisia traces the emergence, rise, and recent eclipse of the modern Tunisian Islamic movement, al-Nahda, and provides a comprehensive analysis of its political, social, and intellectual discourse. The first two chapters concentrate on the factors behind the emergence of al-Nahda and its politicization. The three major confrontations between the movement and the Tunisian regime, which culminated in 1991 in the banning of all al-Nahda activities inside Tunisia, is explored in Chapter Three. The author discusses the basic concepts of political Islam in the movement's literature in Chapter Four, in particular the Islamists' rejection of secularism, and al-Nahda's proposal for a modern Islamic state in Chapter Five. In the concluding chapter, the author addresses the Islamists' cultural agenda and their insistence on an Islamic identity for Tunisia.A valuable contribution to the study of political Islam, this is the first complete analysis, in English, of the history of this modern Tunisian Islamic movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamdi, Mohamed Elhachmi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

System of Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- The Emergence of the Tunisian Islamic Movement -- The Politicisation Process -- Islamists v. Bourguiba: 1981–1987 -- Islamists v. Ben Ali: 1987–1993 -- The Basis for a “Political” Islam -- The Islamists’ Islamic State -- Issues of Identity and Westernisation -- Conclusion -- The Founding Manifesto of Harakat al-Ittijah al-Islami (1981) -- The Manifesto of Al-Nahda Movement of Tunisia (1988) -- The Islamic Basis of Our Foreign Policy -- Dedication

Über Autor(innen)

Mohamed E. Hamdi is the editor in chief of The Diplomat, an English-Arabic magazine for the dialogue of cultures and civilizations, and the editor in chief of Al-Mustakillah, a Pan-Arab weekly newspaper.