The Islamic awakening is an emerging and developing phenomenon in the Islamic countries with different historical grounds and implications. The aim of this article is to review and analyze four discourses of Islamic awakening with a critical approach to scholars, movements, Islamic schools and history of the Islamic countries. Accordingly, the article focuses on the efforts of the Muslims to tackle despotism, underdevelopment, and dependency within four waves of awakening and the breeding grounds of these waves and its implications. The authors study contemporary muslin awakening in the framework of four waves of reformist constitutionalist, critical, radical and civil.