A REGION TRANSFORMED

摘要

The Arab Spring uprisings have brought change on an unprecedented scale to north Africa over the past couple of years, but what impact have these changes had upon the region's appetite for Islamic finance? The changes wrought by the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings in early 2011 have significantly altered the landscape of north Africa- both politically and economically. Before last year's events, authoritarian governments in many of the north African countries affected had either restricted or refused to promote Islamic finance for political or ideological reasons.