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Islamism and Secularism in North Africa

  • John Ruedy
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Secular-Islamic Encounters in Historical Perspective

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Islam and State Expansion in Algeria: Nineteenth-Century Saharan Frontiers
      Donald C. Holsinger
      Pages 3-21
    3. “The Masses Look Ardently to Istanbul”: Tunisia, Islam, and the Ottoman Empire, 1837–1931
      Kenneth J. Perkins
      Pages 23-36
    4. A Rereading of Islamic Texts in the Maghrib in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Secular Themes or Religious Reformism?
      Khalifa Chater
      Pages 37-51
    5. Salafis and Modernists in the Moroccan Nationalist Movement
      Mohamed El Mansour
      Pages 53-71
    6. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Algerian Confrontation with Europe
      John Ruedy
      Pages 73-85
    7. The Political and the Religious in the Modern History of the Maghrib
      Abdelbaki Hermassi
      Pages 87-99

  3. The Islamist Challenge

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 101-101
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    2. Islamism and Islamists: The Emergence of New Types of Politico-Religious Militants
      Séverine Labat
      Pages 103-121
    3. Doctrinaire Economics and Political Opportunism in the Strategy of Algerian Islamism
      Hugh Roberts
      Pages 123-147
    4. The Al-Nahda Movement in Tunisia: From Renaissance to Revolution
      Michael Collins Dunn
      Pages 149-165
    5. Secularism and Nationalism: The Political Discourse of ‘Abd al-Salam Yassin
      Emad Eldin Shahin
      Pages 167-186
    6. Militant Islam and Its Critics: The Case of Libya
      Marius K. Deeb
      Pages 187-197

  4. Reform or Repression: State Responses to the Islamic Revival

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 199-199
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    2. The Challenge of Democratic Alternatives in the Maghrib
      I. William Zartman
      Pages 201-218
    3. Islam, Democracy, and the State: The Reemergence of Authoritarian Politics in Algeria
      John P. Entelis
      Pages 219-251
    4. Re-Imagining Religion and Politics: Moroccan Elections in the 1990s
      Dale F. Eickelman
      Pages 253-273
    5. Islam and the State in Algeria and Morocco: A Dialectical Model
      Mary-Jane Deeb
      Pages 275-287
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 289-298
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About this book

Introduction

This book provides an excellent handbook to the Islamic movements in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya and fills a major gap in the scholarship on Islam and the Arab West.

Keywords

corruption Islam Islamism nationalism opportunism political science

Editors and affiliations

  • John Ruedy
    • 1
  1. 1.Center for Contemporary Arab StudiesGeorgetown UniversityUSA

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