Ḥizb al-Taḥrīr Tunisia (The Liberation Party Tunisia) is an Islamist group that emerged in the late 1970s as a branch of the international Ḥizb al-Taḥrīr movement, which was established in Jerusalem in 1952 by the Palestinian Islamic scholar Taqī al-Dīn al-Nabhānī (1909–77). The movement seeks to install an Islamic state under sharīʿa (here meaning a legal system based on Islamic principles I in a three-stage process, from the training of a select group, through interaction with society, to seizing power. The group was established by Tunisians w…