Rachid Ghannoushi: Islamic Movement and State

MOHD SAIFULLAH MOHD ZULKIFLI

In the life and thought of Ghannoushi, Islam emerges
as both reaffirmation of faith in the absolute unity
of God and a source of liberation. The Islamic
movement is a reform movement that focus on individual
and society, where it seek reform, revised and
revitalised the individual and society. At in the same
time it seek the liberation from cultural alienation
or westernization that is alienated from the Islamic
value and identity, in the issue of economic,
exploitation, moral corruption, it must based on the
Islamic principle of equality, equity, and social
justice.

For Ghannoushi, the problem with muslim world is that
the muslim world are very much rooted with the
European master colonial experience and its legacy. As
result the identity, unity, and development of muslim
nation have been undermined. The western secular
orientation of muslim state has ignore the traditional
Islamic culture of the masses, alienated the nation,
and attempted to cut of their indigenous identity and
value. Ghannoushi further argued that the Tunisia and
most of the muslim societies are collapsed with
failure because of the western model of development.
He accounted the muslim must solved their problem by
themselves by making their own model, based on faith
and experience.


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