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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828073403321

Autore

Hamid Shadi

Titolo

Temptations of power : Islamists and illiberal democracy in a new Middle East / / Shadi Hamid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-931406-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Classificazione

HIS026000POL011000REL037000

Disciplina

324.2/1820956

Soggetti

Islam and politics

Islamic fundamentalism

Democracy - Middle East - History - 21st century

Revolutions - Middle East - History - 21st century

Middle East Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Islamists in Transition; 2. Can Repression Force Islamist Moderation?; 3. The Promise of Politics; 4. The Turn to Repression; 5. Learning to Lose; 6. Chronicle of a Coup Foretold; 7. Illiberal Democrats; 8. A Tunisian Exception?; 9. The Past and Future of Political Islam; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the ""end of history."" The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups to power. In Temptations of Power, Shadi Hamid draws on hundreds of interviews with leaders an