ABSTRACT
Islamist political ideology persists as part of the internal dialogue of Muslim intellectuals and activists concerned with the task of improving the welfare of the population within their nation-state boundaries and in the Muslim nation as a whole. In his criticism of the Westernized elite, Ghannoushi makes an important intellectual contribution by linking Westernization with dictatorship. In staging a critique of the Westernized elites of Morocco, Yassin summed up the problem from the top by accusing the king of undermining the true mission of Islam. The Islamist concept of change aims at bringing about the reconstruction of a way of life that ascribes to Islamic doctrines. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abdel Salam Yassin republished this paradigm in his journal al-Jama'a and introduced some improvements to it. Yassin provides brief and general ideas on the characteristics of the political and economic systems of the Islamic state.
