From Victim to Hangman? Ennahda, Salafism and the Tunisian Transition

The article revisits the notion of post-Islamism that Roy and Bayat put forth to investigate its usefulness in analysing Tunisian party Ennahda role transition. argues does not fully capture ideological political evolution Islamist parties, which, despite having abandoned their revolutionary ethos, still compete arena through religious categories subsume politics Islam. It is only by taking seriously these one can understand how dealt with challenge coming from Salafis.