ABSTRACT
Why has the Justice and Spirituality Movement, the largest Islamic movement in Morocco, rejected any plan to form a political party and continued to work as an informal social movement thereby risking regime repression, while its counterpart, the Movement for Unity and Reform, formed by the splitters of the radical Islamic Youth Movement, decided to enter party politics under the banner of the Party for Justice and Development Party, the incumbent party of Morocco today? This chapter looks at this critical decision to form an Islamic party through an examination of both Islamic movements’ internal debates in the face of similar socio-political structural opportunities and threats.
