The Arab Spring uprisings marked a watershed moment in regional politics, significantly impacting Islamist movements in terms of strategies, ideologies, and organizational structures.Accordingly, this paper examines whether these dramatic events strengthened or weakened the post-Islamist evolution of traditional political Islam movements, focusing on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (E-MB) and the Tunisian Ennahda Movement Party (EMP) as case studies.The proposed hypothesis is that the Arab Spring has variably influenced Islamists.
In Egypt, it initially weakened the post-Islamist turn of the E-MB.However, owing to the 2013 coup Wagner Ring Dataset: A Complex Opera Scenario for Music Processing and Computational Musicology and subsequent repression, the E-MB was politically excluded and weakened, creating a vacuum that was filled by various forms of less political or non-ideological forms of Islamic activism.The Tunisian Islamists had a different story.
The Arab Spring seems to have strengthened their transition to post-Islamism.In its tenth conference, the EMP declared its exit from political Islam, adopting the new concept of Muslim Democracy.Even after the presidential takeover in July 2021, which resulted in Machine Learning-Based Analysis of the Association Between Online Texts and Stock Price Movements the political exclusion of the EMP, the Work and Achievement party that defected from it maintained clear post-Islamist features.