The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History

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In latest years, Algeria has been rocked by social upheaval, protest, and spasmodic violence. Like many countries caught between the tides of fundamentalist religion and secular culture, the very fiber of the nation appears to be fraying.

Michael Willis here charts the meteoric rise of one of the most largest and most powerful Islamist movements in the Muslim world. Tracing its origins to the French colonial domination in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Islamism has at all times played a defining role in both the national struggle against the French and in the newly independent Algerian state.

The primary focal point of Willis’s book is on Algeria since 1988, when unprecedented social unrest led to political changes that allowed Algeria’s Islamists to form political parties and compete in multi- party elections. The largest Islamist party, the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), after rousing victories in local and national elections in 1990 and 1991, was once therefore crushed by the military regime.

Since then, despite the Rome Accord of January 1995, over 50,000 lives have been lost in an an increasing number of bloody conflict that threatens to spiral out of regulate. Banned by the army, the FIS splintered, with more than a few factions arming themselves, leading to the current, ominous state of disarray.

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