Rethinking Political Islam

By Shadi Hamid, William F. McCants

The "twin shocks" of the Egyptian coup and the rise of ISIS have challenged conventional wisdom on political Islam, forcing scholars and Muslim activists to reconsider some of the basic assumptions...

Rethinking Political Islam

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The Problem of Democracy

By Shadi Hamid

Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

By Shadi Hamid

"In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously declared that we had reached "the end of history," and that liberal democracy would be the reigning ideology from now on. But Fukuyama failed to reckon with the...

Militants Criminals and Warlords

By Vanda Felbab Brown, Harold Trinkunas, Shadi Hamid

The Arab Awakening America and the Transformation of the Middle East Saban Center at the Brookings Institution Books

By Salman Shaikh, Bruce Riedel, Michael S. Doran, Jonathan D. Pollack, Khaled Elgindy, Omer Taspinar, Sarah E. Yerkes, Ruth Hanau Santini, Kenneth M. Pollack, Akram Al Turk, Daniel L. Byman, Suzanne Maloney, Ibrahim Sharqieh, Shibley Telham, Stephen R. Grand, Pavel Baev, Bruce D. Jones, Shadi Hamid

Plough Quarterly No. 24 Faith and Politics

By Abraham Joshua Heschel, Sally Thomas, John D. Roth, Cornel West, D. L. Mayfield, Mesissa Ohden, Julian Peters, Peter Mommsen, Samuel Moyn, Robert P. Geroge, Stephanie Saldana, Shadi Hamid, John Huleatt

Blind Spot

By Bernard Haykel, William McCants, David Ignatius, Ryan Crocker, Graeme Wood, Philip Zelikow, Tom Pritzker, Peter Feaver, Sarah Sewall, Dov Zakheim, Vali Nasr, Frances Townsend, Jared Cohen, James E. Cartwright, Aspen Strategy Group, Shadi Hamid, Richard Fontaine, Michele Flournoy, Farah Pandith

Islamic Exceptionalism

By Shadi Hamid

Islamic exceptionalism

By Shadi Hamid

"From the founding of Islam in the seventh century, there had always been a dominant Muslim empire, or "caliphate." But in 1924, the Ottoman Caliphate was formally abolished. Since then, there has...