Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online Volume 1, Issue 1 | Page 12

2/2/2016

Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online

Second, the text barely addresses the place of the Islamists within the current political spectrum. The decades-long battle between the Islamists and
the previous regimes, which many of the authors have focused on for much of their careers, gets most of the attention. These events are still relevant
—they shaped the older generation of Islamist leaders and many of their old regime opponents are still on the scene—but this history does not tell
the whole story. The Manichean struggle of Islamists vs. authoritarians does not tell us enough about H