The Nature of Tyranny was written and published at the dawn of the twentieth century by Abdul Rahman AlKawakibi one of the pioneering thinkers of the Arab world. More than a century later another Arab awakening exploded led by a new generation of youth who chanted AlKawakibis words in revolutionary cries from Aleppo his hometown to Cairos Tahrir Square. Today this seminal text appears in English for the first time with a foreword from Leon T. Goldsmith offering an overview of AlKawakibis inte