Islam, Modernity, and Democracy

Readings

• Ahmet T. Kuru. Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
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• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Islam and the Secular State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008)
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• Publications, Inc., 2010)
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• Sadik J. Al-Azm, Critique of Religious Thought (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2015)
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• Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islams and Modernities, 3rd ed. (London: Verso, 2009)
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• Farzin Vahdat, Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity (Anthem Press, 2015)
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• Zachary Lockman, Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 7 (Also available in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 46-98.)
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• Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin, “Toward a Post-Orientalist Approach to Islamic Religious Studies”, in Carl W. Ernst, Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism (University of South Carolina Press, 2012), pp. 1-19
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• John L. Esposito, Islam and Politics, 4th ed. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998) in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 157-197
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• Gerhard Bowering, Ed. Islamic Political Thought: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2015)
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• Asma Afsaruddin, “Negotiating the shoals of modernity,” in Contemporary Issues in Islam (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2015), pp. 6-24
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• Fazlur Rahman, “Islam and Modernity” in Liberal Islam: a source book, Charles Kurzman, ed. (New York; Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), pp. 304-318. (Also available in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 254-268)
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• Said Amir Arjomand and Elisa Reis, Eds. World of Difference (Sage Publications, 2013)
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• Masoud Kamali, Multiple Modernities, civil society and Islam: The case of Iran and Turkey (Liverpool University Press, 2006)
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• Masoud Kamali, “Islam, Civil Society and Modernization,” in Masoud Kamali, Multiple Modernities, Civil Society and Islam: The Case of Iran and Turkey (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006), pp. 27-48
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• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Traditional Islam in the Modern World (London; New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
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• John Esposito and John Voll, Makers of Contemporary Islam (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 3-22
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• and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden ((Princeton Univ. press, 2009), 1-46
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• Mojtaba Mahdavi, “Ayatollah Khomeini,” in John Esposito and Emad El-Din Shahin, Eds. The Oxford handbook of Islam and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 180-201
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• Sayyid Qutb, “Signposts along the Road;” and “In the shade of the Quran,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden ((Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 129-152
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• Hasan al-Banna, “Toward the Light,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 49-78
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• Sayyid Abu’l-A’la Mawdudi, “The Islamic Law,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden ((Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 79-106
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• Roxanne Euben, Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism --- A Work of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton Univ. Press, 1999) in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 342-370
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• Fazlur Rahman, Islam, 2nd ed., (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979) pp. 193-211
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• John l. Esposito, “Contemporary Islam: Reformation or Revolution?” in the Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? 3rd ed., John L. Esposito (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 5-22
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• Frederic Volpi, ed. Political Islam: A Critical Reader (New York; Routledge 2011)
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• Yvonne y. Haddad, “Sayyid Qutb: Ideologue of Islamic Revival,” in Voices of Resurgent Islam, John L. Esposito, ed., (New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), pp.67- 98
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• Ervand Abrahamian, Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic (Berkeley: University of California press,
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• Asef Bayat, ed. Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 1-254
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• Mojtaba Mahdavi, “Post-Islamist Trends in Postrevolutionary Iran,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Volume 31, Number 1 (2011), 94-109
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• Theology, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2013), 57-71
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• Asef Bayat, ed. Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 257-341
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• John Esposito, Lily, Zubaidah Rahim, and Naser Ghobadzadeh, Eds. The Politics of Islamism: Diverging Visions and Trajectories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Shadi Hamid & W. McCants, Eds. Rethinking Political Islam (Oxford University Press, 2017)
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• Modernity, Identity and Change (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 15-38
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• Achcar, Gilbert. The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Spring (Berkley: University of Californian Press, 2013)
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• Bayat, Asef. Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, 2nd Ed. (Stanford University Press, 2013)
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• Mohammad Fadel, “Modernist Islamic Political Thought and the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions of 2011,” Middle East Law and Governance 3 (2011) 94–104
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• Cole, June. The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changed the Middle East (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014)
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• Dabashi, Hamid. The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (Zed Books, 2012)
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• Dabashi, Hamid. Iran, The Green Movement and the USA: The Fox and the Paradox (Zed Books, 2010)
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• Khaled Abou El Fadl, “The Shari’ah.” In John Esposito and Emad El-Din Shahin, Eds. The Oxford handbook of Islam and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 7-26
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• Ebrahim Moosa, “The Debts and Burden of Critical Islam.” In Omid Safi, Ed. Progressive Muslims: on Justice, Gender and Pluralism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 111-127
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• Tariq Ramadan, “Knowledge and Hermeneutics in Islam Today,” in Mehran Kamrava, Ed. Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions (Berkeley: University of California Press,
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• Farzin Vahdat, God and Juggernaut: Iran’s Intellectual Encounter with Modernity (Syracuse University Press. 2002)
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• Mohammed Arkoun, “Deconstructing Episteme(s),” in Mehran Kamrava, Ed. Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), 39-57
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• Tariq Ramadan, “The Way (Al-Sharia) of Islam,” in the New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity ---A Reader, Mehran Kamrava, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 65-97
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• Ali Mirsepassi, Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 114-118
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• Mohsen Kadivar, “Freedom of Religion and Belief in Islam,” in the New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity ---A Reader, Mehran Kamrava, ed. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2006), pp. 119-142
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• Shahrough Akhavi, “Ali Shariati,” in John Esposito and Emad El-Din Shahin, Eds. The Oxford handbook of Islam and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp.169-179
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• Siavash Saffari, Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Iranian Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
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• Abdulaziz Sachedina, “Ali Shariati: Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution,” in Voices of Resurgent Islam, John L. Esposito, ed., (New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 411-432
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• Saba Mahmood: Politics of Piety (Princeton University Press, 2004), 2-39
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• Leila Ahmed, “Women and the Rise of Islam,” in The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity ---A Reader, Mehran Kamrava, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 177-199. (Also available in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 490-512
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• Fatima Mernissi, “Muslim Women and Fundamentalism,” in The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity ---A Reader, Mehran Kamrava, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 205-211. (Also, available in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 513-519)
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• Murtaza Mutahhari, “The Human Status of Women in the Quran,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 249-274
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• Zaynab al-Ghazali, “An Islamist Activist;” and “From Days of My Life,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 275-301
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• Nadia Yassine, “Modernity, Muslim Women, and Politics in the Mediterranean,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 302-317
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• Abdullahi A. An-Na’im, Muslims and Global Justice (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
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• Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islamic Restrictions on Human Rights,” in Islam and Human Rights, Ann Elizabeth Mayer, 4th ed. (Boulder: Westview, 2007), in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 469-489
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• Asma Afsaruddin, “Islam, gender and feminist hermeneutics,” in Contemporary Issues in Islam (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2015), 85-114
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• Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 1-92
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• Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 7-32
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• M. Abd al-Salam Faraji, “The Neglected Duty,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 321-343
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• Adonis, Violence & Islam (Polity, 2016)
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• Asma Afsaruddin, “War and peacemaking in the Islamic tradition,” in Contemporary Issues in Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2015, 115-140
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• Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 35-163
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• Usama bin Laden, “Declaration of War against the Americans; occupying the land of the Two Holy Places,” in R. L. Euben and M. Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 425-459
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• Fawaz A. Gerges, A History of ISIS, Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. 23-97; 202-259
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• Fatema Mernissi, “Palace Fundamentalism and Liberal Democracy”, in Emran Qureshi and Michael A. Sells, eds. The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 51-67. (Also available in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 710
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• Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 133-156. (Also available in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, 727-749)
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• Fred Halliday, “West encountering Islam: Islamophobia reconsidered,” in Islam Encountering Globalization, ed., Ali Mohammadi (Routledge: 2002), 14-35. (Also available in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 751-771)
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• Tariq Ramadan, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
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• Roy P. Mottahedeh, “The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist’s Critique”, in Emran Qureshi and Michael A. Sells, eds. The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy (Columbia Univ. Press, 2003) 131-151
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• Mohammed Arkoun, “Present-Day Islam between Its Tradition and Globalization,” in the New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity ---A Reader, Mehran Kamrava, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), pp. 29-63
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• Robert W. Hefner: Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (Princeton University Press, 2000), 2-19
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• Sadik J. Al-Azam, Is Islam Secularizable? Challenging Political And Religious Taboos (Gerlach Press, 2014), pp. 27-55
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• Abdolkarim Soroush, Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush, eds., Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, “Islamic Government,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamic Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 155-180
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• Hasan al-Turabi, “The Islamic State,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamic Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 207-223
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• E. Mendieta and J. Vanantwerpen, eds. The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2011). (Conversation with Butler, Habermas, Taylor, West)
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• Mehrzad Boroujerdi, “Can Islam be Secularized?” Transition: Essays on Culture and Identity in the Middle Eastern Society, edited by M.R. Ghanoonparvar and Faridoun Farrokh (Laredo, TX: Texas A&M International University, 1994), pp. 55-64
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• Wael Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)
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• Alfred Stepan, “Religion, Democracy, and the ‘Twin Tolerations”, Journal of Democracy 11.4 (2000) 37- 57
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• Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, “The General Framework of the Islamic Economy,” in Roxanne Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamic Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 181-206
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• East, John Esposito and Azzam Tamimi, eds. (London: C. Hurst & Co. 2000) in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 572-583
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• Asef Bayat, “Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question?” ISIM Papers 8 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007). (Also avialble in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 585-601)
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• Yusuf al-Qaradawi, “Islam and Democracy,” in Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Univ. press, 2009), pp. 224-245
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• John L. Esposito and John O. Voll, Islam and Democracy (New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966), 11-32. (Also available in Mahdavi ed., Muslims and Modernities, pp. 664-704)
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• A. Filali-Ansari, “Muslims and Democracy”, in Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg, Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), 193-207
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• Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg, Islam and Democracy in the Middle East. Baltimore; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
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