On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution: Power and Resistance Today

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The Muslim World in Rebellion: Critique, Power and Resistance provides the first comparative analysis of two major political events in the contemporary middle east - the Arab uprisings which started in Tunisia, and the revolution in 1979. Historical studies to date have not linked the act of protest in Tehran to Cairo, or to the same act in New York or London. Arshin Adib-Moghaddan shows how the Arab revolts promise to the shift the discourse away from the idea that Arabs and Muslims are peculiar, that "Middle Eastern Studies" can't be linked to political theory, that the dynamics of rebellion "there" are fundamentally different from the politics of revolt "here".The Muslim World in Rebellion argues that the dialectics of power and resistance are truly universal and that they are unfolding within a globalised political context that is increasingly interconnected. In order to illuminate this argument theoretically, the study is organised around conceptual terms that feed into forms of power and resistance, such as revolution, radicalism, dissent, knowledge, neighbour and reform. These terms and concepts are discussed and deconstructed via an empirical discussion of pivotal events beyond the non-western world, demonstrating that for a long time, and without realising it, we have been living in the end times of unitary categories such as "west" and "east.