Blain Auer

Blain Auer is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the department of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University. His forthcoming book, Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion, and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate, will be published by I. B. Tauris Press in May.

Israel-Palestine, Politics/LawMarch 8, 2012

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

What the anxious West has failed to recognize in the Arab Spring is that the political transformations of the Middle East are the coming of age of a new Islamism.