Rachid Ghannouchi : A Democrat within Islamism
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- Author Azzam S. Tamimi
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Azzam S. Tamimi
"The face of nonviolent Islamic democracy has long been associated with the writing of the Tunisian political philosopher and activist Rachid Ghannouchi. Yet, not until the work of Azzam Tamimi has the western world been exposed to the complexity of Ghannouchi's arguments-intertwined as they are with a subtle appreciation of democracy's political imperative and Islam's moral authority. Through a careful use of original and secondary sources, Tamimi has provided the most detailed and fair-minded analysis of one of the Muslim world's most articulate-albeit controversial-interpreters of political Islam and its relationship to modern democracy."
- John Entelis, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
"Among contemporary Islamic figures, Rachid Ghannouchi stands out as an important but enigmatic individual whose brief political career in Tunisia hinted at the Possibilities and resistance Muslim politics creates within contemporary states. With great insight, relying on a wide array of sources virtually unknown in the West, and with admirable sensitivity to the materials and to Ghannouchi himself as an Islamist within the turbulent atmosphere of North Africa in the last two decades, Azzam Tamimi carefully and painstakingly constructs as analysis of Ghannouchi's ideas that points out the perpetual dilemmas he faced, caught between traditionalists and radical Islamist groups and between western and local people, Muslim interpretations of political concepts. This is an important work of biography and political theory that far outshines, in its rigor and construction, most similar works on other contemporary Islamist activists."
- Dirk Vandewalle, Dartmouth College
(9780195140002/8553)
"The face of nonviolent Islamic democracy has long been associated with the writing of the Tunisian political philosopher and activist Rachid Ghannouchi. Yet, not until the work of Azzam Tamimi has the western world been exposed to the complexity of Ghannouchi's arguments-intertwined as they are with a subtle appreciation of democracy's political imperative and Islam's moral authority. Through a careful use of original and secondary sources, Tamimi has provided the most detailed and fair-minded analysis of one of the Muslim world's most articulate-albeit controversial-interpreters of political Islam and its relationship to modern democracy."
- John Entelis, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
"Among contemporary Islamic figures, Rachid Ghannouchi stands out as an important but enigmatic individual whose brief political career in Tunisia hinted at the Possibilities and resistance Muslim politics creates within contemporary states. With great insight, relying on a wide array of sources virtually unknown in the West, and with admirable sensitivity to the materials and to Ghannouchi himself as an Islamist within the turbulent atmosphere of North Africa in the last two decades, Azzam Tamimi carefully and painstakingly constructs as analysis of Ghannouchi's ideas that points out the perpetual dilemmas he faced, caught between traditionalists and radical Islamist groups and between western and local people, Muslim interpretations of political concepts. This is an important work of biography and political theory that far outshines, in its rigor and construction, most similar works on other contemporary Islamist activists."
- Dirk Vandewalle, Dartmouth College
(9780195140002/8553)
