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This book provides a survey of the political situation in 15 Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa and provides overviews of associated post-Arab Spring politics, with an emphasis of political Islamist movements. A translation from its original in Bahasa Indonesia, the book critically assesses the concept of post-Islamism from an Indonesian perspective. It argues that the wave of democratization in the Middle East following the Arab Spring failed to create an open democratic life in the region, except in the country where the Arab Spring began, Tunisia. Rather, it has left growing conflicts and destabilization in the region, with the rise of new authoritarianism. The authors simultaneously show that Islamic political movements in general are adaptive in the face of the changing political environment post-Arab Spring. They present the example of the Muslim Brotherhood as a movement with distinctive characteristics and high levels of adaptability in changing socio-political environments. It is relevant to advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying and researching contemporary Arab or Islamist movements and to scholars look for a neat comparative survey of countries after the Arab Spring.

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Nostalgiawan Wahyudhi is Researcher at the Research Centre for Politics, the National Research and Innovation Agency, Jakarta. He also serves as Lecturer at International Relations Department, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta. He works on several issues relates to political Islam, Middle East, transnational Islamic movements, Southeast Asian Islam, Islam in Indonesia. He has written several books on political Islam in Indonesia, Algeria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Gulf States. M. Hamdan Basyar is Senior Researcher at Research Centre for Politics, the National Research and Innovation Agency, Jakarta. He also serves as Lecturer at International Relations Department (Islam and the Middle East), University of Indonesia, Jakarta. He also works at Department of Global and Strategic Studies at the same university. Dhurorudin Mashad is Senior Researcher at Research Centre for Politics, the National Research and Innovation Agency, Jakarta. He is prospected and promoted as Professor from the same institution on religious and political studies. He works on several books concerning religion and politics in the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia. M. Fakkhry Ghafur is Researcher at the Research Centre for Politics, the National Research and Innovation Agency, Jakarta. He is PhD Candidate at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta. He previously studied Islamic studies in Libya. His works are related to Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East. Defbry Margiansyah is Researcher at the Research Centre for Politics, the National Research and Innovation Agency, Jakarta. He completed a masters in global studies at the Institut Für Soziologie, Albert Ludwig-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany.

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