A review of Anne Wolf’s Political Islam in Tunisia: A History of Ennahda, a book that presents the hidden history of Tunisia’s main Islamist movement, from the 1960s until the post-revolution present.
‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
“The struggle for the revival of Hebrew as a living, modern language might provide a good illustration of the range …
Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, celebrated as the Philosopher of the Arabs, soon took up the anti-Byzantine refrain. He posited a …
‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …
A Crisis Waiting to Happen: Book Review of Christopher M. Davidson’s ‘After the Sheikhs’ After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse …
This is an edited version from the review first published in the November 2012 issue in Emel Magazine. North Africa: …
