Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8

Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi (2017) Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8. Intellectual Discourse, 25 (1). pp. 275-290. ISSN 0128-4878 E-ISSN 2289-5639

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Abstract

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the “end of history.” The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won. But what of ‘illiberal’ democracy – the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedom, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere has 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. ...

Item Type:	Article (Book Review)
Additional Information:	2008/57468
Uncontrolled Keywords:	book review, Islamists, Illiberal Democracy
Subjects:	J Political Science > JC Political theory
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Political Science
Depositing User:	professor elfatih abdelsalam
Date Deposited:	19 Jul 2017 15:27
Last Modified:	19 Jul 2017 15:28
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/57468

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