From Arab Spring to Coptic Winter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Arab Spring to Coptic Winter write by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. This book was released on 2015. From Arab Spring to Coptic Winter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Arab Spring to Coptic Winter
From Arab Spring to Coptic Winter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Arab Spring to Coptic Winter write by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. This book was released on 2015. From Arab Spring to Coptic Winter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Congressional Record
Congressional Record - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Congressional Record write by United States. Congress. This book was released on 2011. Congressional Record available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
What Is Enlightenment?
What Is Enlightenment? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Is Enlightenment? write by Mohammed D. Cherkaoui. This book was released on 2016-04-11. What Is Enlightenment? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political sociology has struggled with predicting the next turn of transformation in the MENA countries after the 2011 Uprisings. Arab activists did not articulate explicitly any modalities of their desired system, although their slogans ushered to a fully-democratic society. These unguided Uprisings showcase an open-ended freedom-to question after Arabs underwent their freedom-from struggle from authoritarianism. The new conflicts in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Libya have fragmented shar’iya (legitimacy) into distinct conceptualizations: “revolutionary legitimacy,” “electoral legitimacy,” “legitimacy of the street,” and “consensual legitimacy.” This volume examines whether the Uprisings would introduce a replica of the European Enlightenment or rather stimulate an Arab/Islamic awakening with its own cultural specificity and political philosophy. By placing Immanuel Kant in Tahrir Square, this book adopts a comparative analysis of two enlightenment projects: one Arab, still under construction, with possible progression toward modernity or regression toward neo-authoritarianism, and one European, shaped by the past two centuries. Mohammed D. Cherkaoui and the contributing authors use a hybrid theoretical framework drawing on three tanwiri (enlightenment) philosophers from different eras: Ibn Rushd, known in the west as Averroes (the twelfth century), Immanuel Kant (the eighteenth century), and Mohamed Abed Al-Jabri (the twentieth century). The authors propose a few projections about the outcome of the competition between an Islamocracy vision and what Cherkaoui terms as a Demoslamic vision, since it implies the Islamist movements’ flexibility to reconcile their religious absolutism with the prerequisites of liberal democracy. This book also traces the patterns of change which point to a possible Arab Axial Age. It ends with the trials of modernity and tradition in Tunisia and an imaginary speech Kant would deliver at the Tunisian Parliament after those vibrant debates of the new constitution in 2014.
From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter
From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter write by Raphael Israeli. This book was released on 2017-09-08. From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world is watching with uncertainity as the "Arab Spring" unfolds. Optimistically named by international media sources, the term "Arab Spring" associates the unrest with ideas of renewal, revival, and democratic thought and deed. Many hoped the overthrow of authoritarian leaders signaled a promising new beginning for the Arab world. Raphael Israeli argues that instead of paving a path toward liberal democracy, the Arab Spring in fact launched a power struggle. Judging from the experiences of countries where the dust is settling-including Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and perhaps also Syria and Libya-it appears that Islamic governments will fill the vacuum in leadership. The hopes that swept the Islamic world with the Arab Spring have given way to a winter of lost hopes and aspirations, as it becomes increasingly clear that democratic outcomes are not on the horizon. What is worse is that the West seems to have abandoned its hopes for democracy and freedom in the region, instead making peace with the idea that Islamic governments must be accepted as the lesser of evil options. Presenting a clear-eyed picture of the situation, Israeli examines thematic problems that cut across all the Muslim states experiencing unrest. He groups the countries into various blocs according to their shared characteristics, then discusses these groups one by one. For each country, he considers whether the liberal-democratic option is viable and examines what kind of regime could be considered legitimate and stable. This volume offers valuable insights for political scientists, Middle Eastern specialists, and the general informed public eager to comprehend the import of these momentous events.
