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Conclusion: Prospects for Muslim Democracies

2013
This book has sought to assess the role of religion in politics within Muslim societies, especially in light of the transformational changes taking place since the Arab Spring.1 Most Western scholars have long asserted that religion has no place in a democratic polity.
Kamran Bokhari, Farid Senzai
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Reforming Muslim Family Laws in Non-Muslim Democracies

2017
Israel and Greece belong to a small group of countries that formally recognize and apply Muslim Family Laws (MFLs) within their legal systems. Although state-enforced MFLs affect human and women’s rights negatively, both Greek and Israeli governments have refrained from direct legislative interventions into substantive MFLs under their jurisdictions ...
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The Rise of "Muslim Democracy"

Journal of Democracy, 2005
In recent years "Muslim democracy" has emerged as a new political reality in a number of Muslim countries with open politics to define the role of Islam in democracy. Muslim democracy evokes the legacy of Christian Democratic parties of Europe in that it is an electoral platform that seeks to dominate the middle by integrating Muslim values into ...
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A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy

2022
This book examines the ideals, institutions, and processes that shape the development of a concrete Muslim-based democratic system–a form of democracy that recognises the centrality of religion in Muslim societies. The first part explores Islamic political writings and multiculturalist political theory.
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Democracy in the Muslim World

Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2006
As soon as the Cold War ended in the victory of the Western world led by the United States (US), Francis Fukuyama predicted the ‘End of History’, believing that this was the final victory of libera...
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Muslim Citizenship in Liberal Democracies

2016
This book explores Muslims’ civic and political participation in Australia and Germany, shedding light on their individual experiences, motives for, and personal implications of their multi-faceted engagement. Based on in-depth interviews with Muslims who have been active within a Muslim community context, mainstream civil society and the political ...
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Islam, Muslim polities and democracy

Democratization, 2004
Since 11 September 2001 (‘9/11’) the international spotlight has been more firmly than ever on the Muslim world, and its Middle East heartland in particular. All aspects of life in Muslim societies – history, educational system, attitudes towards the West, gender relations, cultural underpinnings, political and economic systems, demography, foreign ...
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The Awakening of Muslim Democracy

2014
Why and how did Islam become such a political force in so many Muslim-majority countries? In this book, Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey - countries that were founded by secular rulers and have since undergone ...
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Pseudo‐democracy in the Muslim world

Third World Quarterly, 2004
This paper investigates the mechanisms of democratisation leading to the formation of pseudo‐democratic political systems in the contemporary Muslim world. It is argued that pseudo‐democracies in the Muslim world are created and strengthened by the structural opposition between three types of democratic doctrines, social practices and institutional ...
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Democracy, Democratization, and the Muslim World

2023
Abstract This chapter provides a brief conceptual description of ‘democracy’ as a political system (as it is understood and described by the political theorists) so that to delineate on the persisting and prevailing features of democracy.
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