Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat Within Islamism
Tamimi, Azzam S.![Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat Within Islamism](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22681592/CHSBZCOP0322681592.jpg)
Tamimi introduces the thought of Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi, the renowned Islamist political activist who heads Tunisia's most important--albeit banned--Islamist political opposition to the current authoritarian regime of Zine Abidine Ben Ali. Ghannouchi is the leader of a school in modern Islamic political thought that advocates democracy and pluralism. While insisting on the compatibility of democracy with Islam, he believes that because of th...