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Title: | Africa Rights Monitor: Revolutionary Islam in North Africa: Challenges and Responses |
Author: | El-Khawas, Mohamed A. |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Africa Today |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 385-404 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Tunisia Egypt Algeria |
Subjects: | Islam Church and State Anthropology and Archaeology Religion and Witchcraft |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4187122 |
Abstract: | Islamic activists have been encouraged in their push for political reforms by the spread of democracy in Eastern Europe and Russia in 1989-1990 following the demise of communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union. They have sought to galvanize public opinion and to organize mass support to pressure North African governments for greater liberalization and democratization. Their task has been facilitated by popular discontent amid political failure, economic hardship, and social turmoil. This article examines the resurgence of Islam in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria, and the reactions of the political leaders of these countries. Ref. |