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 theArab 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.
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