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Islam and the Arab Awakening Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Ramadan, Tariq

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  • Title Islam and the Arab Awakening
  • Author Ramadan, Tariq
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Date 2012-10-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # R01D-01993
  • ISBN 9780199933730 / 0199933731
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
  • Library of Congress subjects Democratization - Arab countries, Islam - 21st century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012005620
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.097

From the publisher

One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear. Now one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers examines and explains it, in this searching, provocative, and necessary book.

Time Magazine named Tariq Ramadan one of the most important innovators of the twenty-first century. A Muslim intellectual and prolific author, he has won global renown for his reflections on Islam and the contemporary challenges in both the Muslim majority societies and the West. In Islam and the Arab Awakening, he explores the uprisings, offering rare insight into their origin, significance, and possible futures. As early as 2003, he writes, there had been talk of democratization in the Middle East and North Africa. The U.S. government and private organizations set up networks and provided training for young leaders, especially in the use of the Internet and social media, and the West abandoned its unconditional support of authoritarian governments. But the West did not create the uprisings. Indeed, one lesson Ramadan presents is that these mass movements and their consequences cannot be totally controlled. Something irreversible has taken place: dictators have been overthrown without weapons. But, he writes, democratic processes are only beginning to emerge, and unanswered questions remain. What role will religion play? How should Islamic principles and goals be rethought? Can a sterile, polarizing debate between Islamism and secularism be avoided?

Avoiding both naive confidence and conspiratorial paranoia, Ramadan voices a tentative optimism. If a true civil society can be established, he argues, this moment's fragile hope will live.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Choice, 06/01/2013, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/13/2012, Page 60

About the author

Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University, and is President of the European Muslim Network in Brussels. His books include What I Believe, Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, and Islam, the West, and the Challenges of Modernity.

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