Islam and the Politics of Resistance in Algeria, 1783-1992

"This multi-disciplinary work helps explain why Algeria, at the turn of the millennium, remains the focus of profound struggle concerning the role of religion in politics. For more than two hundred years, Islam has motivated a great variety of political movements within Algeria. Different kinds of political leaders - with widely disparate agendas - have invoked Islam in one form or another within Algeria to obtain mass support for their policies.

This study, which begins in 1783 and ends in 1992, recounts how these political actors all utilized and shaped Islam in the contested terrains of politics, culture and religion."--BOOK JACKET.