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In order to place in their historical depth the questions which still torment Tunisian society today, namely those concerning the relationship between the political and religious spheres and the apprehension of the concept of secularism as a political mode organization of the relations existing between these two spheres, this article proposes an analysis of the positions of the Ennaḥḍaẗ movement and the organizations from which it originated on these questions in the period extending from the 1960s to January 14, 2011. After first recalling place the context in which the Tunisian Islamist movement developed, this article will consider three main periods corresponding to the various associative then political structures within which this movement was organized, the positions of the Ennaḥḍaẗ movement and the organizations from which it came, having known, while remaining relatively stable, adapting to different political contingencies.
Keywords: politique, religion, islam, Tunisie, Ennahdhat
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This paper investigates a current tendency among democracies to appeal to highly competent independent institutions in order to constrain and amend the potential deficiencies of elected and representative democratic bodies. According to some democratic theorists, these counter-majoritarian institutions enjoy democratic legitimacy because they allow the contestation of ill-devised or unjust collective decisions, and hence contribute to the global improvement of democratic results. Based on a reading of Philip Pettit's work on contestatory democracy and of David Estlund's epistemic approach, the paper questions the democratic nature of these institutional forms of contestation and shows that, as long as they are not subjected to tighter democratic control, these institutions can be interpreted as ways of contesting democracy rather than as implements for its improvement.