Islam and the Arab Awakening by Tariq Ramadan
by Christina
Nonfiction — print. Oxford University Press, 2012. 245 pgs. Purchased. Note: This review is adapted from a paper I wrote for class on the book. It is more academic than my reviews normally are. Ramadan’s book attempts to provide context to the so-called “Arab Spring”, a series of popular uprisings that spread from Tunisia and Egypt to Syria and Libya without warning. He offers the revolutions up as “awakenings” of public uprisings, but strongly councils against the binary between secularism […]
Categories: 2013 Reads, Middle East, Nonfiction, Religion, Textbook • Tags: Tariq Ramadan
