By Andrew Borowiec
ISBN-10: 0275961362
ISBN-13: 9780275961367
How did Tunisia achieve taking away the specter of militant Islamic fundamentalism? Borowiec examines the activities, which commence with the removing of the senile President Habib Bourguiba in 1987, identified in Tunisia because the swap. this present day, whereas its round the corner neighbor, Algeria, is in the middle of an upheaval threatening modernization and a mundane govt, Tunisia is the single Muslim state to prohibit polygamy and to introduce state-funded contraception.
Borowiec starts via sketching Tunisia's background from the Phoenician period onward. He presents an in depth research of the country's Islamic circulate, after which examines the efforts of Bourguiba's successor, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, to liberalize the economic system, foster a Western orientation, and make schooling available to all. Interviews with prime executive officers in addition to educators, writers, and usual Tunisians places a human face on a method that could let Tunisia to make the transition to develop into a tender built kingdom initially of the subsequent millennium. This publication is critical to students, researchers, and most people serious about occasions in North Africa and the Arab world.
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