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For the first twenty-five years of Algerian independence most specialists viewed Algeria largely through the prism of its political order, which, being explicitly secular, was easily approachable in political and sociological vocabularies generated in the Western academies. Even scholars specifically focusing on Islam in the Maghrib tended, during most of the 1980s, to see Islamism in Algeria as the least developed and the least coherent of the region’s Islamic movements.1 The striking successes of the Islamists after the explosion of October 1988, however, and particularly their sweeping victories in the elections of June 1990 and December 1991, caught most analysts off-guard.
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François Burgat, L’Islamisme au Maghreb: La voix du sud (Tunisie, Algérie, Libye, Maroc) (Paris: Karthala, 1988), pp. 143–44.
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Ruedy, J. (1996). Continuities and Discontinuities in the Algerian Confrontation with Europe. In: Ruedy, J. (eds) Islamism and Secularism in North Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61373-1_5
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