Nabil Shokri

The "Arab Spring": A Different Conceptualization

Are We Moving Toward a Post-Arab-Islamic Middle East and North Africa?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book employs the occurrence of the so called "Arab Spring" to inspect and to test some notions that dominated the Middle Eastern studies for decades. In fact, this study goes intentionally and consciously against the basic assumptions that attempted to present the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as an "Arab Land" or "Islamic World". MENA has witnessed the rising of the earliest Mediterranean civilizations that formed what is known now as the "western civilization". Hence, this study proposes a challenging idea about the relationship between Islam and MENA polities. This idea is based on the simple fact that Islam is an Arab cultural product, that is not adapted to MENA polities. In other words, this study is proposing a different view that can be summarized as MENA's clash of civilization. Moreover, the findings of this study propose that Islam is a collapsing paradigm and the future of MENA is not moving according to an Islamic agenda. On the contrary, MENA polities arestruggling against the Islamic agenda that has many state and non-state actors, strategies and, more importantly, an irregular path of evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9783659906190
• ISBN-10: 3659906190
• Artikelnr.: 46812556

Autorenporträt

Dr. Nabil Shokri is currently a contributing analyst at Wikistrat. He has earned his PhD in Political Systems and Institutional change Form IMT Lucca For Advanced Studies, Master's degree in European Governance and International Politics, a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Affairs from University of Catania.