In his book "General Freedoms in the Islamic State" and contrary to usual writings on the subject, Rached Ghannouchi divides his approach to the concept of democracy into two stages: one in which he strips the general philosophical signification associated with democracy so that it becomes merely a procedural tool to exercise power, and one in which he universalizes the operating field of the concept of democracy by ensuring its operability in all cultural spaces. Ghannouchi's reading is therefore not only governed by the obsession of creating objective knowledge about the concept of democracy.