The promise of democracy for Muslims offers something historically unparalleled. But how powerful is the idea of democracy in the Middle East? Could the region actually be at the beginning of a democratic wave, or is a 'democratic recession' under way in Islamic lands? In The Wave, Middle East expert Reuel Marc Gerecht argues that the Middle East may actually be at the beginning of a momentous democratic wave whose convulsions could become the region's defining theme during Obama's presidency. He describes the powerful Middle Eastern democratic movements coming from both the secular left and the religious right and asserts that America must reassess democracy's supposed lack of a future in the region. The author explains the importance of those countries that hold the keys to the success or failure of democracy in the region, most notably Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. He tells why mainstream Islamist groups today see elections, not revolution, as a means for society to maintain akhlaq: the mores that define good Muslims. And he shows why any legitimate form of government in the contemporary Arab Middle East must be seen to be complementary to the Prophet Muhammad's legacy and the Holy Law. If democracy is to succeed in Arab lands, he concludes, it will be because devout Arabs have decided that their faith and representative government can meld.
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• Foreword by Fouad Ajami
• Introduction : Turkey's choice
• Turkish identity from the Ottomans to Ataturk
• The rise of political Islam and the AKP
• The AKP's political victories
• Reshaping identity by restoring Islam
• The AKP's foreign policy
• Looking ahead : will Islamism replace Kemalism?

Zeyno Baran examines the intense struggle between Turkey's secularists and Islamists in their most recent battles over their country's destination. Looking into the fate of both Turkey's secularism and its democratic experiment, she shows that, for all the flaws of its political journey, the modern Turkish state has managed to maintain an essential separation between religion and the political realm-a separation that is now in jeopardy.
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• Commentary One: On what the Communist Party is
• Commentary Two: On the beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party
• Commentary Three: On the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party
• Commentary Four: On how the Communist Party is an anti-universe force
• Commentary Five: On the collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Communist Party to persecute Falun-Gong
• Commentary Six: On how the Chinese Communist Party destroyed traditional culture
• Commentary Seven: On the Chinese Communist Party's history of killing
• Commentary Eight: On how the Chinese Communist Party is an evil cult
• Commentary Nine: On the uscrupulous nature of the Chinese Communist Party.

• Shang ce. 1896-2003
• zhong ce. 1896-2006
• xia ce. 1896-2009.

• 上冊. 1896-2003
• 中冊. 1896-2006
• 下冊. 1896-2009.