The revival of political Islam in the MENA region : the case of Ennahda in Tunisia
It analyzes the success of Islamic political parties in Arab countries after the period called the Arab Spring, focusing on the case of Tunisia. The revolutions that took place in countries of the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 lead to a process of constitutional reform, which un...
| Autor principal: | Abbiate, Tania |
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| Tipo de documento: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | English |
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2017
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It analyzes the success of Islamic political parties in Arab countries after the period called the Arab Spring, focusing on the case of Tunisia. The revolutions that
took place in countries of the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 lead to
a process of constitutional reform, which unexpectedly saw a resurgence of Islamic political
parties, such as Ennahda (Tunisia), which came to the fore in the institutionalized phase of the
movement through democratic elections. Although in some of these countries the picture has
since darkened, in Tunisia the constitutional transition is under way, with the recent approval
of a new constitution and the calling of legislative and presidential elections. We describe the
Ennahda party and analyze the regulatory framework applicable to political parties in the post-
-revolutionary context, demonstrating that the religious connotation of parties is not necessarily
an obstacle to democratic transition |
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