Foreword to the Tenth Edition

Abstract

The translation is of the book’s 10th edition published in 2006, which includes a valuable foreword by Hussein Amin. Written twenty years after the publication of the first edition, the author added a discussion of two topics which he considered timely at the time, namely Islamic terrorism and democracy, thereby almost predicting the events of the ’Arab Spring’. In addition, he discusses ways to address both of these issues.