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Islam And the Arab Awakening by Tariq Ramadan

ISLAM AND THE ARAB AWAKENING

This book makes no claim to reveal secrets, to unveil what may be strategic goals, and even less to predict the future.

 To do so would be madness, a combi- nation of presumption and vanity. It would also be futile.

 Today, as terms like “Arab Spring,” “revolutions,” and “upheavals” are thrown about to describe what has happened across the Middle East and North Africa,

 I seek only to reexamine the facts, study the realities, and suggest some lessons, not only for the Arab world and the Muslim majority countries, but also for observers of these startling and unexpected developments.

What really happened in Tunisia and in Egypt ? What is happening in the broader region that makes up MENA (Middle East and North Africa) ? Why now ?

 These are the first questions that spring to mind. To answer them we must submit the recent past and the personalities involved to fresh scrutiny and evaluate the available political, geopolitical, and economic data.

Only a holistic reading that encompasses these three dimensions can provide the keys needed for us to begin to understand what lies ahead.

As huge shock waves shake the Arab countries, such an approach is essential if we are to make sense of the issues, if we are join hands with those societies in their march toward freedom, democracy, and economic autonomy.