The Tunisian uprising, Ennahdha, and the revival of an Arab-Islamic Identity
<p>In the new landscape of Tunisian politics shaped by the 2011 uprising it became commonplace to accuse the leaders of the Islamist movement Ennahdha of resorting to a divisive politics of identity. It seemed to their critics that Ennahdha's promotion of what it called 'Arab-Islamic...
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Rowman and Littlefield International
2016
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Summary: | <p>In the new landscape of Tunisian politics shaped by the 2011 uprising it became commonplace to accuse the leaders of the Islamist movement Ennahdha of resorting to a divisive politics of identity. It seemed to their critics that Ennahdha's promotion of what it called 'Arab-Islamic identity' was an opportunistic sleight-of-hand intended to appropriate a successful popular uprising that had never been of their making...</p> |
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