The Role of Islam for National Liberation Movements: A Comparison of Algeria and Morocco
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- 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_218How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Islam; Nationalism; Symbol; secularization
- Abstract
This paper compares the national liberation movements in Morocco and Algeria, including the phase of anti-colonial struggle and modernization. In contrast to structural determinism, this paper emphasizes subjective agency and explains the process of national liberation movements in Morocco and Algeria by sociological concepts including nationalism, symbols, and discourse. Morocco and Algeria are very different in the way they utilized and dealt with Islam, but they eventually came to similar results — a good balance between Islam and secular politics, preserving the fruits of liberation movements, and achieving modernization with national characteristics. Through comparison, this paper will summarize the different institutions by which Islam operated in the national liberation movements, reveal the laws of interaction between religion and secular politics, and provide a new perspective for interpreting the history of national liberation in Algeria and Morocco.
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TY - CONF AU - Yihao Lu PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/30 TI - The Role of Islam for National Liberation Movements: A Comparison of Algeria and Morocco BT - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1913 EP - 1925 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_218 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_218 ID - Lu2022 ER -