ABSTRACT
This chapter asks how one can be simultaneously a Muslim and live in this era – how to be a Muslim today. Fifteen stands for the fifteenth century of the hijra, the beginning of the Islamic community. Twenty-one signifies the fact that we are living now on the edge of the twenty-first century, with all the problems that poses for the world community. The end of the 1960s in Tunisia saw some fundamental changes. The thing that helps explain the emergence of the Islamist movement in Tunisia is the defeat in the 1967 Six-Day War. This represented a failure of the nationalist-Arab factor. There was the Qur'anic Preservation Society (QPS), set up by the ministry of religion. One condition is that the movement provides a plan that society can identify with. A plan must have a well-developed social profile, and that is something that the Islamic Tendency movement (ITM) has never had.
