Fabio Merone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1449261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabio Merone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabio |
| FAMILY NAME | Merone |
| SIGNATURE | MERONE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gerda Henkel Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1375-2124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Iraqi Thawrat Tishrīn as a Revolutionary Process
Explaining the distinction between religious and political activism in Islamism: Evidence from the Tunisian case
Tunisia's Islamist movement Ennahda has announced a separation of political and religious work, apparently reinforcing a “post-Islamist” argument that Islamic parties have left behind religious mobilization. However, the boundary between religious and political fields is highly porous. We ask why the distinction between religious and political activism remains a point of ambiguity within Islamism. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 48 men…
Contextualizing Salafism as Islamic politics
The Evolution of Tunisian Salafism after the Revolution: From La Maddhabiyya to Salafi-Malikism
What shape does Salafism take in Tunisia after the ban of the Salafi-Jihadi group Ansar al-Shari‘a and the wave of securitization carried out by national authorities? This article argues that a constraining legal context put Salafism's doctrinal rigidity in tension with its survival and ultimately prompted a residual current of Salafi actors to accommodate their stance toward Malikism, the prevalent school ( madhhab ) in the country. This adaptat…
Analysing revolutionary Islamism: Ansar al-ShariaTunisia according to Gramsci
This article offers a reading ofAnsar al-ShariaTunisia, a radical Salafist movement active in Tunisia between 2011 and 2013, as a revolutionary Islamist movement. Although referring to different theological sources, such radical movements end up reproducing the same model of radical Islamist politics traditionally associated to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)-inspired movements. The article draws on a Gramscian Islamist framework of revolutionary pol…
Between social contention and takfirism: The evolution of the Salafi-jihadi movement in Tunisia
This article analyses the evolution of the international jihadi movement during the Arab uprisings. It is based on the case study of Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia, which emerged in 2011 and disappeared in 2013, after it went through a process of failed institutionalization. I argue that, under certain circumstances, the jihadi movement can be institutionalized, i.e. transformed into a radical social movement in which violence is an undesirable optio…
Salafism after the Arab Awakening
The chapter introduces the research questions the volume is concerned with, namely how to explain the sudden rise of Salafism after the uprisings, what its main ideological and organizational changes are and in what way transnational linkages play a role in its developments.
Salafism After the Arab Awakening: Contending with People's Power
The book analyzes in detail the ideological and organizational changes that occurred within the broader Salafi movement after the Arab uprisings. While scholarship had long recognized the divisions within Salafism, this volume looks at the ways in which the extraordinary events of the Arab uprisings have led to a profound rethink of such divisions. Focusing on the developments that have characterized Salafi movements across a number of Arab count…
Between social contention and takfirism: The evolution of the Salafi-jihadi movement in Tunisia
This article analyses the evolution of the international jihadi movement during the Arab uprisings. It is based on the case study of Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia, which emerged in 2011 and disappeared in 2013, after it went through a process of failed institutionalization. I argue that, under certain circumstances, the jihadi movement can be institutionalized, i.e. transformed into a radical social movement in which violence is an undesirable optio…
Local (R)evolutions in Tunisia, 2011–2014: Reconstructing Municipal Political Authority
In postrevolutionary Tunisia, local politics have played an important role in the reconstruction of political authority in the wake of regime change. Continuities of governance between the old and new regimes, the local emergence of new social and political actors, and the competition between new and old local actors, as well as between them and the central state, have challenged the authority of national institutions and elected officials. As na…
Post-Islamism, ideological evolution and ‘latunisianité’ of the Tunisian Islamist partyal-Nahda
The electoral rise of Islamist parties following the Arab uprisings\nhas led to different political outcomes in different countries, generating a significant amount of critical engagement with the concept of post-Islamism that emerged two decades ago. This article examines the notion of post-Islamism and uses one important aspect of it to explain the continued relevance of thinking about Islamist politics through ideology. Rather than being a fai…
Enduring Class Struggle in Tunisia: The Fight for Identity beyond Political Islam
This article examines the emergence of Salafism and the post-Ben Ali process of institution-building through the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion that have their origin in the Bourguibian period. While Al-Nahda compromised with opposition secular parties accomplishing the integration of a moderate Islamist middle-class excluded from power since independence, continuous political mobilisation and urban revolt in parallel with the liberalisation…
Moderation through exclusion? The journey of the TunisianEnnahdafrom fundamentalist to conservative party
The success of processes of democratic change is often predicated on the moderation of anti-systemic and extremist parties. The literature on such parties argues that such moderation, namely the acceptance of democratic procedures, human rights, and a market economy, comes about through inclusion. This seems to be borne out when one analyses a number of Islamist parties having contributed to the progressive democratization of their respective cou…
Salafist movement and sheikh-ism in the Tunisian democratic transition
The article examines the complexity of Tunisian Salafism in the context of the Tunisian transition to democracy. Building on primary sources and original field work, the article highlights the theoretical and practical divergences that affect the Salafist camp in Tunisia in its struggle to continue a revolutionary project for a sector of disenfranchised youth unwilling to support a process of renewal of political institutions that they perceive a…
Salafism in Tunisia: Challenges and Opportunities for Democratization
Moderation through exclusion? The journey of the TunisianEnnahdafrom fundamentalist to conservative party
The success of processes of democratic change is often predicated on the moderation of anti-systemic and extremist parties. The literature on such parties argues that such moderation, namely the acceptance of democratic procedures, human rights, and a market economy, comes about through inclusion. This seems to be borne out when one analyses a number of Islamist parties having contributed to the progressive democratization of their respective cou…
Post-Islamism, ideological evolution and ‘latunisianité’ of the Tunisian Islamist partyal-Nahda
The electoral rise of Islamist parties following the Arab uprisings\nhas led to different political outcomes in different countries, generating a significant amount of critical engagement with the concept of post-Islamism that emerged two decades ago. This article examines the notion of post-Islamism and uses one important aspect of it to explain the continued relevance of thinking about Islamist politics through ideology. Rather than being a fai…
Salafism in Tunisia: Challenges and Opportunities for Democratization
Enduring Class Struggle in Tunisia: The Fight for Identity beyond Political Islam
This article examines the emergence of Salafism and the post-Ben Ali process of institution-building through the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion that have their origin in the Bourguibian period. While Al-Nahda compromised with opposition secular parties accomplishing the integration of a moderate Islamist middle-class excluded from power since independence, continuous political mobilisation and urban revolt in parallel with the liberalisation…
The Evolution of Tunisian Salafism after the Revolution: From La Maddhabiyya to Salafi-Malikism
What shape does Salafism take in Tunisia after the ban of the Salafi-Jihadi group Ansar al-Shari‘a and the wave of securitization carried out by national authorities? This article argues that a constraining legal context put Salafism's doctrinal rigidity in tension with its survival and ultimately prompted a residual current of Salafi actors to accommodate their stance toward Malikism, the prevalent school ( madhhab ) in the country. This adaptat…
Salafist movement and sheikh-ism in the Tunisian democratic transition
The article examines the complexity of Tunisian Salafism in the context of the Tunisian transition to democracy. Building on primary sources and original field work, the article highlights the theoretical and practical divergences that affect the Salafist camp in Tunisia in its struggle to continue a revolutionary project for a sector of disenfranchised youth unwilling to support a process of renewal of political institutions that they perceive a…
Between social contention and takfirism: The evolution of the Salafi-jihadi movement in Tunisia
This article analyses the evolution of the international jihadi movement during the Arab uprisings. It is based on the case study of Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia, which emerged in 2011 and disappeared in 2013, after it went through a process of failed institutionalization. I argue that, under certain circumstances, the jihadi movement can be institutionalized, i.e. transformed into a radical social movement in which violence is an undesirable optio…
Local (R)evolutions in Tunisia, 2011–2014: Reconstructing Municipal Political Authority
In postrevolutionary Tunisia, local politics have played an important role in the reconstruction of political authority in the wake of regime change. Continuities of governance between the old and new regimes, the local emergence of new social and political actors, and the competition between new and old local actors, as well as between them and the central state, have challenged the authority of national institutions and elected officials. As na…
Analysing revolutionary Islamism: Ansar al-ShariaTunisia according to Gramsci
This article offers a reading ofAnsar al-ShariaTunisia, a radical Salafist movement active in Tunisia between 2011 and 2013, as a revolutionary Islamist movement. Although referring to different theological sources, such radical movements end up reproducing the same model of radical Islamist politics traditionally associated to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)-inspired movements. The article draws on a Gramscian Islamist framework of revolutionary pol…
Explaining the distinction between religious and political activism in Islamism: Evidence from the Tunisian case
Tunisia's Islamist movement Ennahda has announced a separation of political and religious work, apparently reinforcing a “post-Islamist” argument that Islamic parties have left behind religious mobilization. However, the boundary between religious and political fields is highly porous. We ask why the distinction between religious and political activism remains a point of ambiguity within Islamism. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 48 men…
Salafism in Tunisia: Challenges and Opportunities for Democratization
Moderation through exclusion? The journey of the TunisianEnnahdafrom fundamentalist to conservative party
The success of processes of democratic change is often predicated on the moderation of anti-systemic and extremist parties. The literature on such parties argues that such moderation, namely the acceptance of democratic procedures, human rights, and a market economy, comes about through inclusion. This seems to be borne out when one analyses a number of Islamist parties having contributed to the progressive democratization of their respective cou…
Salafist movement and sheikh-ism in the Tunisian democratic transition
The article examines the complexity of Tunisian Salafism in the context of the Tunisian transition to democracy. Building on primary sources and original field work, the article highlights the theoretical and practical divergences that affect the Salafist camp in Tunisia in its struggle to continue a revolutionary project for a sector of disenfranchised youth unwilling to support a process of renewal of political institutions that they perceive a…
Enduring Class Struggle in Tunisia: The Fight for Identity beyond Political Islam
This article examines the emergence of Salafism and the post-Ben Ali process of institution-building through the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion that have their origin in the Bourguibian period. While Al-Nahda compromised with opposition secular parties accomplishing the integration of a moderate Islamist middle-class excluded from power since independence, continuous political mobilisation and urban revolt in parallel with the liberalisation…
Post-Islamism, ideological evolution and ‘latunisianité’ of the Tunisian Islamist partyal-Nahda
The electoral rise of Islamist parties following the Arab uprisings\nhas led to different political outcomes in different countries, generating a significant amount of critical engagement with the concept of post-Islamism that emerged two decades ago. This article examines the notion of post-Islamism and uses one important aspect of it to explain the continued relevance of thinking about Islamist politics through ideology. Rather than being a fai…
Between social contention and takfirism: The evolution of the Salafi-jihadi movement in Tunisia
This article analyses the evolution of the international jihadi movement during the Arab uprisings. It is based on the case study of Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia, which emerged in 2011 and disappeared in 2013, after it went through a process of failed institutionalization. I argue that, under certain circumstances, the jihadi movement can be institutionalized, i.e. transformed into a radical social movement in which violence is an undesirable optio…
Local (R)evolutions in Tunisia, 2011–2014: Reconstructing Municipal Political Authority
In postrevolutionary Tunisia, local politics have played an important role in the reconstruction of political authority in the wake of regime change. Continuities of governance between the old and new regimes, the local emergence of new social and political actors, and the competition between new and old local actors, as well as between them and the central state, have challenged the authority of national institutions and elected officials. As na…
Salafism after the Arab Awakening
The chapter introduces the research questions the volume is concerned with, namely how to explain the sudden rise of Salafism after the uprisings, what its main ideological and organizational changes are and in what way transnational linkages play a role in its developments.
Salafism After the Arab Awakening: Contending with People's Power
The book analyzes in detail the ideological and organizational changes that occurred within the broader Salafi movement after the Arab uprisings. While scholarship had long recognized the divisions within Salafism, this volume looks at the ways in which the extraordinary events of the Arab uprisings have led to a profound rethink of such divisions. Focusing on the developments that have characterized Salafi movements across a number of Arab count…
Between social contention and takfirism: The evolution of the Salafi-jihadi movement in Tunisia
This article analyses the evolution of the international jihadi movement during the Arab uprisings. It is based on the case study of Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia, which emerged in 2011 and disappeared in 2013, after it went through a process of failed institutionalization. I argue that, under certain circumstances, the jihadi movement can be institutionalized, i.e. transformed into a radical social movement in which violence is an undesirable optio…
The Evolution of Tunisian Salafism after the Revolution: From La Maddhabiyya to Salafi-Malikism
What shape does Salafism take in Tunisia after the ban of the Salafi-Jihadi group Ansar al-Shari‘a and the wave of securitization carried out by national authorities? This article argues that a constraining legal context put Salafism's doctrinal rigidity in tension with its survival and ultimately prompted a residual current of Salafi actors to accommodate their stance toward Malikism, the prevalent school ( madhhab ) in the country. This adaptat…
Analysing revolutionary Islamism: Ansar al-ShariaTunisia according to Gramsci
This article offers a reading ofAnsar al-ShariaTunisia, a radical Salafist movement active in Tunisia between 2011 and 2013, as a revolutionary Islamist movement. Although referring to different theological sources, such radical movements end up reproducing the same model of radical Islamist politics traditionally associated to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)-inspired movements. The article draws on a Gramscian Islamist framework of revolutionary pol…
Contextualizing Salafism as Islamic politics
Explaining the distinction between religious and political activism in Islamism: Evidence from the Tunisian case
Tunisia's Islamist movement Ennahda has announced a separation of political and religious work, apparently reinforcing a “post-Islamist” argument that Islamic parties have left behind religious mobilization. However, the boundary between religious and political fields is highly porous. We ask why the distinction between religious and political activism remains a point of ambiguity within Islamism. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 48 men…
The Iraqi Thawrat Tishrīn as a Revolutionary Process
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