Democracy and pluralism in the discursive traditions of the Tunisian Islamic movement

In this paper I discuss from the anthropological perspective the discursive practices of the Tunisian Islamic movement about democracy and pluralism. In the Islamic discourse, such ‘ideascapes’ (Appadurai 1996) are part of a wider discussion, whose subject is the specificity of Tunisian Islamic modernity. People I carried out my research with are da’wa activists, whose aim is spreading pious lifestyles and reasoning methods, and Islamists (intellectuals and militants), engaged in the democratic reconstruction of the post-revolution State. The practical and theoretical elaboration of the ideascapes of democracy and pluralism, carried out by these subjects, is part of the contemporary Islamic discursive traditions.