Reviews for Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn

The average rating for Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-04-19 00:00:00 Stefanny Royer While this book provides a workable definition of Islam and Muslims, there are definitely flaws with his theory of Post-Islamism. Also, in order to make his point about the Iranian Revolution, he leaves out the role of Khomeini in the pre-revolutionary buildup. This book would probably be most interesting to someone with a fairly strong knowledge of the region in order to piece together the parts which are less fully explained.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-12 00:00:00 Daniel Graner Thus far Bayat is tracing the trends within Islamic politics that are following their middle-class origins to their middle-class conclusions in terms of strategy and ideology. The flaw - and a major one at that - is that Bayat denies any movements by the working class.