In recent years, Algeria has been rocked by social upheaval,
protest, and spasmodic violence. Like many countries caught between
the tides of fundamentalist religion and secular culture, the very
fiber of the nation seems to be fraying.
Michael Willis here charts the meteoric rise of one of the
largest and most powerful Islamist movements in the Muslim world.
Tracing its origins to the French colonial domination in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Islamism has always
played a defining role in both the national struggle against the
French and in the newly independent Algerian state.
The primary focus of Willis's book is on Algeria since 1988,
when unprecedented social unrest led to political changes that
allowed Algeria's Islamists to form political parties and compete
in multi- party elections. The largest Islamist party, the Front
Islamique du Salut (FIS), after rousing victories in local and
national elections in 1990 and 1991, was subsequently crushed by
the military regime.
Since then, despite the Rome Accord of January 1995, over 50,000
lives have been lost in an increasingly bloody conflict that
threatens to spiral out of control. Banned by the army, the FIS
splintered, with various factions arming themselves, leading to the
current, ominous state of disarray.
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