Rachid al-Ghannouchi and understanding of politics

Rachid al-Ghannouchi, both a thinker and leader of the Islamic movement, is an author that has given way to contemporary Islamic thought in the recent years and is reputed in the global Islamic circles. What distinguishes him from other thinkers of Islamic politics is that politics is directly involved. Because he is the leader of the Nahda Movement which has an important place in Tunisian politics Rachid al-Ghannouchi is a thinker who has reflections with rethinking relationship between democracy and Islam, explaining concepts of Islamic freedom and human rights, redefining the language of the civil society, the thoughts of incongruity between the concepts of secularism and civil society in the Islamic world and in the West. The ideas of Gahnnouchi who approaches these concepts by taking Islam at the center, are important for the Islamic world. In this respect, the main point of our work constitutes Gahhanouchi's political thoughts. Moreover, Ghannouchi's life, the factors shaping his mind world and Nahda Movement which he founded, constitutes other subjects that we have mentioned in our work.