These two collections can (and should) be profitably read together. Many aspects of Iran's June 2009 “Green Revolution” and this year's “Arab Spring” were anticipated in the research in Being Young and Muslim. A number of studies in Islam and Democratization in Asia respond to aftermath of similar (sometimes failed) democratizing efforts in the Islamic World. It is not that the recent history of Indonesia, to take an example, provides a window on the future of Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution; rather, it provides a short, sobering list of probable futures. There are some areas of geographical and thematic overlap between the collections as well. The experience of Muslim minorities in Europe in Being Young and Muslim makes for interesting reading alongside analyses of the Muslim experience as minorities in India and China in Islam and Democratization in Asia. That said, the collections generally offer different approaches to their subjects...

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