Islam versus democracy

Fazzur Rahman Siddiqui, the author of this book, has focused attention on 'political Islam'

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