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Title:Libya and the Islamic challenge
Author:Sammut, DennisISNI
Year:1994
Periodical:The World Today: Chatham House Review
Volume:50
Issue:10
Pages:198-200
Language:English
Geographic term:Libya
Subject:Islamic movements
Abstract:As opposed to the situation in other North African countries, in Libya the Islamic fundamentalists remain on the fringe of society and the revolutionary regime of Colonel Qaddafi looks immune to their challenge. Islamic forces in Libya can be grouped under three different categories: the Senussia Order and its followers, the traditional urban Islamic leadership, and the forces of alternative Islam, the so-called fundamentalists. The Senussia and the urban Islamists do not present a threat to the revolutionary government. It is from the Islamic fundamentalists that many expected the most serious threat to the Qaddafi regime. Fundamentalist groups have operated in Libya for many years. They include the 'Moslem Brotherhood' ('Ikhwan al-Muslimun'), 'Ad-Dawa wa at-Tabligh', the 'Islamic Liberation Party' ('Hizb al-Tahrir al Islami'), and 'Al Jamaat al-Islamiya'. They have failed to become more than a nuisance to the revolutionary leadership. The reason for this can be found both in the nature and in the structure of Libyan society, as well as in the character of the revolutionary leadership. However, the success of the Libyan regime to contain the fundamentalists in the past does not necessarily mean that the problem will not arise in the future. Notes, ref.
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