Young Islam: The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World

by Avi Max Spiegel

Book Overview

How the competition for young recruits is creating rivalries among Islamists today

Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support--a competition not simply between Islamism and the secular world, but between different and often conflicting visions of Islam itself.

Drawing on extensive ethnographic research among rank-and-file...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691176280
• ISBN13: 9780691176284
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"