ISLAM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Robin Wright, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011) ("The bottom line: Uprising produce a heady euphoria and sense of hope. The day after confronts raw realities, including the quest for credible leadership and solutions to wrenching problems. No country will get through its transition quickly or painlessly. Expectations will never be met fast enough. History is also replete with rebellions derailed." "Yet the drive to be part of the twenty-first century--rather than get stuck in the status quo of the twentieth century or revert to the ways of the seventh century--now consumes the Islamic world." Id. at 4.).