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Since the interruption of the electoral process that saw the FIS win a broad-based majority in the first round of legislative elections,1 Algeria has been the scene of bloody conflicts between militant Islamists and the forces of order. The Algerian state has faced a politico-religious opposition that was driven by the FIS during its three years of legal existence but has subsequently been radicalized and partially escaped its control.
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See Pierre Bourdieu, “Genèse et structure du champ religieux,” Revue Française de Sociologie, vol. 12, no. 2 (1971): 295–334.
On this subject see Mohammed Tozy, “Islam et État au Maghreb,” Monde Arabe Maghreb-Machrek, no. 126 (1989): 25–46.
In this regard see ‘Abd al-Latif Soltani, “Al-Mazdaqiyya hiya asl al-ishtirakiyya” (Mazdaqism is the Source of Socialism), (Morocco: 1974).
On the history of the review Al-Asala see Luc-Willy Deheuvels, Islam et pensée contemporaine en Algérie: La revue Al-Asala (1971–1981) (Paris: CNRS, 1991).
An electrical engineer, Bennabi (1905–1973) produced a considerable body of literature on the “conditions of the renaissance” of the Muslim world. Incorrectly considered to have been the principal inspiration for the Algerian Islamist movement, he nevertheless exercised a great influence over the young Islamist university people who came from the group at the Central Faculty in Algiers. For more details see Sadek Sallam, L’Islam et les musulmans en France (Paris: 1987).
See Aïssa Khelladi, Algérie: Les islamistes face au pouvoir (Algiers: ALFA, 1992).
Ahmad Rouadjia, Les frères et la mosquée: Enquête sur le mouvement islamiste en Algérie (Paris: Karthala, 1990).
On this subject see Michel Seurat, L’État de barbarie (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1989).
Giles Kepel, Le Prophète et Pharaon: Les mouvements islamistes dans l’Egypte contemporaine (Paris: La Découverte, 1984).
Mohammed Boukhobza, Octobre 1988: Evolution ou rupture? (Algiers: 1991).
Nilufer Göle, “Ingénieurs musulmans et étudiantes voilées en Turquie: Entre totalitarisme et l’individualisme,” pp. 167–92, in Intellectuels et militants de l’Islam contemporain, under the direction of Giles Kepel and Yann Richard (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1990).
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Labat, S. (1996). Islamism and Islamists: The Emergence of New Types of Politico-Religious Militants. In: Ruedy, J. (eds) Islamism and Secularism in North Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61373-1_7
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