Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda : between politics and preaching

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    • McCarthy, Rory

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Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda : between politics and preaching

Rory McCarthy

(Cambridge Middle East studies, 53)

Cambridge University Press, 2018

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-230) and index

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In the wake of the Arab uprisings, al-Nahda voted to transform itself into a political party that would for the first time withdraw from a preaching project built around religious, social, and cultural activism. This turn to the political was not a Tunisian exception but reflects an urgent debate within Islamist movements as they struggle to adjust to a rapidly changing political environment. This book re-orientates how we think about Islamist movements. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with grassroots activists of Tunisia's al-Nahda, Rory McCarthy focuses on the lived experience of activism to offer a challenging new perspective on one of the Middle East's most successful Islamist projects. Original evidence explains how al-Nahda survived two decades of brutal repression in prison and in social exclusion, and reveals what price the movement paid for a new strategy of pragmatism and reform during the Tunisian transition away from authoritarianism.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Morality, behaviour, and networks
  • 3. Rethinking politicisation
  • 4. Confronting prison
  • 5. Beyond social exclusion
  • 6. Rebuilding and fragmenting
  • 7. Conclusion.

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