Ali Salman, Mohammad Hashim Kamali and Mohamed Azam Mohamed Adil (Editors) - Democratic transitions in the Muslim world (2018)
Among Muslim-majority countries in the world today, only a handful can be said to be democracies. This puzzling fact has been investigated and written about by countless scholars in the past decades such as Olivier Roy, John Esposito, Asef Bayat and Daniel Brumberg, just to name a few. Following...
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/81475/1/148-Article%20Text-601-2-10-20200707.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/81475/ http://journals.iium.edu.my/irkh/index.php/ijrcs |
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| Summary: | Among Muslim-majority countries in the world today, only a handful
can be said to be democracies. This puzzling fact has been investigated
and written about by countless scholars in the past decades such as
Olivier Roy, John Esposito, Asef Bayat and Daniel Brumberg, just to
name a few. Following the tragic end of the 2010 Arab Uprisings (tragic
for the current state of civil unrest and war ongoing in the Middle East),
scholars from the East are now trying to make sense of this enigma
regarding the relationship between Islam and democracy. To the
writers in this edited book, Islam and democracy are not intrinsically
antagonistic. The world around these authors seems to have accepted
democracy, if not substantially, at least instrumentally as a peaceful
mechanism to choose persons into power. |
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