RACHID GHANNOUCHI AND THE RISE OF MUSLIM DEMOCRAT IN TUNISIA’S POLITICS
Abstract
The paper highlights Rachid Ghannouchi’s political ideas in the context of the growth of political Islam in the Arab world by focusing on historical and political development that underlie the democratic process in Tunisia. It discusses political idealism he developed in Ennahda movement (The Renaissance Party) based on the principles of freedom and justice and its uncompromising opposition to the autocratic regime of Habib Bourguiba (1957-1987) and his successor Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali (1987-2011). The study is qualitative in nature in the form of documentary and content analysis. It used descriptive, analytical and historical approaches to analyse data derived from established archival sources. The study found that Ennahda which was founded by Ghannouchi in 1980 had broad influence in mainstream Islamic politics in Tunisia, that espouse to dismantle the autocratic rule and decolonise the corrupt practice and political suppression of past regime. The influence it developed had broadly impacted both Islamic and secular forces to converge and commit toward democratic rule, human rights and the principle of justice, freedom, and the rule of law
Downloads
References
https://retizen.republika.co.id/posts/319150/rached-ghannouchi-pemikir-islam-politik-tunisia.
Bayat, Asef. Islam and Democracy: What Is the Real Question? Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
———. The Coming of a Post-Islamist Society. Fall, 1996.
Bennabi, Malik. Al-Qadaya Al-Kubra. Damsyik: Dar al-Fikr, 1991.
Esposito, John L., and John O. Voll. Makers of Contemporary Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Ghannouchi, Rached. “From Political Islam to Muslim Democracy: The Ennahda Party and the Future of Tunisia.” Foreign Affairs 95, no. 5 (2016): 33.
Ghannouchi, Rachid. “Al-‘Ilmaniyyah Wa ‘Ilaqah Al-Din Bi Al-Dawlah Min Manzur Harakah Al-Nahdah.” Tunisia: Centre for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), 2012.
———. Al-Hurriyat Al-‘Ammah Fi Al-Dawlah Al-Islamiyah. Beirut: Arab Unity Studies Center, 1993.
Jebnoun, Noureddine. “Tunisia at the Crossroads: An Interview with Sheikh Rachid Al-Ghannouchi: Foreword by John L. Esposito,” 2014.
Malik, Maszlee. “An Interview with Dr. Rashid Ghannouchi.” Kulliyyah Research Bulletin 5, no. 2 (2014): 1–3.
———. Tunisia, Al-Nahda Dan Gerakan Islam, Dalam Rashid Al Ghannoushi Intelektual-Reformis Politikal Islam. Selangor: Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia & Ilham Books, 2016.
Sayyid, Bobby S. A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism. London: Zed Books, 2003.
Sofi, Mohammad Dawood. Rashid Al-Ghannushi: A Key Muslim Thinker of the 21st Century. Singapore: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
Tamimi, Azzam S. Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Wolf, Anne. Political Islam in Tunisia: The History of Ennahda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
