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Revelatie en revolutie: worden Algerije en Tunesië het Iran van Noord-Afrika?

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Abstract

Revelation and revolution : will Algeria and Tunisia become the Iran of North Africa - For more than a decade and for the major part of the Muslims contemporary Iran has been the example of a successful Islamic state. At the beginning of 1979 the world was stunned when Islamic jurists, under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeiny, expulsed Shah Reza Pahlavi and founded the Iranian Islamic Republic. A number of circumstances which incited the Iranian people to a revolt are nowadays also present in Algeria and Tunisia. For one thing, ’Islam’, ’Fundamentalism’ and ’Islamism’ as such do not exist. The rise and success of the phenomena ’Fundamentalism’ and ’Islamism’ are not only determined by economic factors. Certain international events have had their effect too. However, a renewed interest in Islam, Westernization and modernization, and a lot of other events, help explain the current incapability of the religious opposition. Still, until today, no Islamic revolution has taken place in Algeria and Tunisia. Does this mean that the Iranian case is of a ’sui-generis nature’ and that the Algerian and Tunisian rulers don’t have to fear an imminent Islamic revolution ?

How to Cite:

Van Ruysseveldt, P., (1995) “Revelatie en revolutie: worden Algerije en Tunesië het Iran van Noord-Afrika?”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 40(3), 268–289. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95207