“Last Sunday, [Hamadi] Jebali, the party’s number two official, alarmed some by bringing up ‘the caliphate’.” The Ennahda party did not sweep him under the rug in embarrassment for reportedly going on about his personal aspirations to be a modern-day successor to the first few rulers of the entire Islamic world after Muhammad’s death, the … Continue reading Tunisia: Islamic party figure who announced aspirations to caliphate selected as prime minister