Political ascent
Subtitle: contemporary Islamic movements in North Africa
By: Emad Eldin Shahin.
Series: State, culture, and society in Arab North Africa
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Islam -- Africa, North -- History -- 20th century; Islam and politics -- Africa, North; Africa, North -- Politics and government
Description: In this book, Emad Shahin offers a comparative analysis of the Islamic movements in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, exploring the roots of their development, the nature of their dynamics, and the tenets of their ideology.

He argues that the formation and expansion of Islamic movements since the late 1960s has come in response to the marginalization of Islam in state and society and to a perceived failure of imported models of development to resolve socioeconomic problems or to incorporate the Muslim belief system into a workable plan for social transformation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-261) and index.