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Book Review: Islamic Exceptionalism by Shadi Hamid

Book Review: Islamic Exceptionalism by Shadi Hamid

Claire Sadar reviews Shadi Hamid's new book, Islamic Exceptionalism, for Muftah.

May 29, 2016
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Islamic Exceptionalism, available June 7th, by Shadi Hamid

by Claire Sadar

Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid, available from St. Martin’s Press June 7, 2016

The violence and chaos that followed the Arab Spring has left Middle East analysts scrambling to provide explanations as to what went wrong. Islamic Exceptionalism, by Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy and author of Temptations of Power, is the latest addition to the Arab Spring post-mortem genre.

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