Analysing revolutionary Islamism

Ansar al-ShariaTunisia according to Gramsci

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ID3979556
AuthorsFabio Merone (0000-0003-1375-2124, Middle East Research Group, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume26
Issue6
Pages1122-1143
Publication date2021-11-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2020.1801268
OpenAlexW3045491948
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited32

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 politics first employed in Thomas Bukto's 2004 article 'Revelation or revolution: a Gramscian approach to the rise of Political Islam'. The objective of using such an analytical frame is to comprehend the revolutionary logic of radical Islamism. Although the Islamist/Salafi discourse is rooted in religious language and ideology, this article argues that it is no less revolutionary-minded, in the modern sense of the term, than the one of non-Islamist radical movements. Islamism is in fact able to provide the alternative worldview (ideology) necessary for revolutionary movements to oppose the dominant structure of power

Frame (networking · Ideology · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Revelation · Sharia · Sociology · Theology · Computer Science · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Religion, Society, and Development

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