Political Islam and the Arab Uprising
Islamist Politics in Changing Times
Fazzur Rahman Siddiqui
Sage
364 pages; Rs 995
In The Clash of Civilizations Samuel P Huntington had for the first time in the 1980s and 1990s predicted “religious-civilisational disputes” between the Christian West and the Islamic Arab countries in the post-Cold War world. His diagnosis has proved substantially correct. Western powers are grappling with violent movements in the Arab world where the masses are being mobilised on the slogan that wars have to be waged in defence of “Islam,” which is under attack from its “traditional enemy”, ie the
