Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda by Alison Pargeter

By Alison Pargeter

The Arab Spring heralded a profound shift within the center East, bringing to energy Islamist activities which had formerly been working within the shadows. The Muslim Brotherhood stormed to victory in Egypt and emerged as a key participant in Libya’s nascent political area. in the meantime, An-Nahda came across itself catapulted into energy because the head of Tunisia’s coalition executive. For it slow, it appeared as if the zone used to be coming into the sunrise of a brand new Islamist age.

But navigating their respective nations via tricky and painful transitions eventually proved too not easy for those forces, and, simply as unexpectedly, the Brotherhood was once dramatically overthrown in Egypt and left significantly weakened in Libya. In Tunisia, An-Nahda controlled to drag itself during the main issue, yet its failure to articulate and convey the hopes and aspirations of a big portion of Tunisian society broken its credibility.

In this authoritative account, Alison Pargeter expertly charts the Islamists’ ascent and next fall from energy. according to vast learn and interviews with excessive rating contributors of the Brotherhood and An-Nahda, Pargeter bargains a comparative research of the stream in North Africa because the Arab Spring, and descriptions the results of the Brotherhood’s decline on either the sector and the broader Islamist political project.

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