1st Edition
The Politicisation Of Islam A Case Study Of Tunisia
By Mohamed Elhachmi Hamdi
Copyright 1998
220 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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 Ḥarakat al-Ittijāh al-Islāmī (1981) -- The Manifesto of Al-Nahḍa Movement of Tunisia (1988) -- The Islamic Basis of Our Foreign Policy -- Dedication
Biography
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.
