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Title:The Islamism in Algeria
Author:Melasuo, TuomoISNI
Year:1991
Periodical:Hemispheres: Studies on Cultures and Societies
Issue:8
Pages:11-20
Language:English
Geographic term:Algeria
Subjects:Islamic movements
Front Islamique du Salut
Abstract:The Front islamique du salut (FIS) in Algeria is first and foremost a political phenomenon. Primarily a protest movement, and only secondarily a party, it is the result of Algerians' disappointment and accumulated frustrations. Its rise in the late 1980s and early 1990s parallels and coincides with the collapse of the old regime and the reshaping of Algeria's social, economic and political spheres. This article seeks to explain the phenomenon of the FIS and the reasons for its emergence. With this in mind, it considers the past history of Islam in Algeria, the experiences of French colonial rule and the particularities of the liberation war, the specific characteristics of political life, socioeconomic development and the cultural milieu in independent Algeria, and the impact of the outside world. It concludes that the evolution of Algerian political life since independence, but especially after social and economic conditions started to deteriorate in the mid-1980s, largely explains the development of Islamism and the FIS. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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