Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Tunisia’s Ennahda and Turkiye’s AKP have enjoyed close relations going back decades. Understanding the dynamics and nature of these relations can be somewhat complex, as research into these movements by journalists, analysts and academics is often coloured by what they think of Islamism broadly, which is often fused together with things like the war on terror, concerns about subversion of national identity and fears of radical transformation of societies such as those witnessed after the 1979 Iranian revolution, or Daesh after seizing control of parts of Iraq and Syria between 2014-2017. This can lead to some very poor analysis of Islamism, in general, and Islamists, in particular. However, many scholars have been pushing back against these simplified […]
