Islamist Movements during the Tunisian Transition and Syrian Crisis

Teije H. Donker is a by-fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. As a political sociologist, his work stands at the intersection of social movement studies and Middle East area studies. He received his Ph.D from the European University Institute, had a postdoctorate at the department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway, and a three year lecturership at the department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is a co-author of Social Movements and Civil War: When Protests for Democratization Fail (Routledge, 2017).

• List of FiguresAbbreviationsRomanisation of ArabicAcknowledgementsCast of CharactersTimeline of EventsMap 1 Southern Europe, Middle East and North AfricaMap 2 TunisiaMap 3 SyriaMap 4 North-West Syria1 Introduction2 The Distinct Practices of Islamist Movements3 The Evolution of Islamisms4 The Tunisian Transition5 The Syrian Crisis6 Comparing Distinct Practices7 ConclusionsReferencesIndexBack Matter

Based upon an extremely rich empirical analysis of the Tunisian transition to democracy and the Syrian crisis, this volume provides a fundamental contribution to our understanding of Islamist movements. For social movement scholars, the conceptualisation and investigation of contentious practices represents an important theoretical innovation.