To the astonishment of observers, Ennahda’s president, Rached al-Ghannouchi, declared after the tenth party congress in 2016: ‘Il n’y a plus de justification à l’islam politique en Tunisie. On sort de l’islam politique pour entrer dans la démocratie musulmane. Nous sommes des musulmans démocrates qui ne se réclament plus de l’islam politique’ (Ennahda 2016d).1 As this chapter will show, Ennahda wrestled with the question of political legitimacy and how to build a political order in post-2011 Tunisia to such an extent that it even recast its own identity as an Islamist party and movement, but also renegotiated the relationship between and altered the meanings of democracy and Islam, just as other Islamists in North Africa have (for the Moroccan case, see Khanani 2021).