Islam and free markets: can they co-exist?

A political chain reaction was set off in the Arab world in 2010 when Mohammed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian stall-owner, was denied a licence to ply his trade and in desperation driven to suicide. That his immolation might ignite mass protests in his home country was to be expected, but not that protest movements would erupt across the Arab world that still have not burned out. Popular movements in Muslim countries gained traction by invoking the promise of reviving Islamic values that authorities were accused of having betrayed.

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