Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis (by David H. Warren)
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Qatar, UAE, ʿAbdallah Bin Bayyah, Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Abstract
David H. Warren enriches the rising literature on ʿulamaʾ and the “Arab Spring” with his first book, which provides an overview of the history of Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Abdullah Bin Bayyah’s relations with Qatar and the UAE, respectively; both ʿulamaʾ and states’ engagement with the “Arab Spring”; and the political thought of both ʿulamaʾ and its connection to both states’ foreign policy. After describing the book’s structure here, I discuss the book’s methods and core arguments. I then engage methodologically with some of its arguments and conclude with why this book is a good model for scholarship on the ʿulamaʾ.
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1 David H. Warren, “Qatari Support for the Muslim Brotherhood Is More
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bin-bayyah-and-the-uae-israel-peace-deal/.
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