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Issues | Muslim Democracies: Changes and Challenges
- Fall 2009 / Volume 11, Number 4
Muslim Democracies: Changes and Challenges
Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Fall 2009
When analyzing Islam and democracy, pundits and scholars have tended to focus on Arab-majority countries, all of which are authoritarian. This special issue brings a new perspective into the debate by analyzing non-Arab Muslim democracies in addition to Muslim democrats in some Arab countries. Besides empirical analyses, this issue also includes theoretical discussions on diverse political interpretations of Islam and the role of Islamic discourses in a democratic polity.
Commentaries
The Kurdish initiative announced by the governing Justice and Development Party has increased the...
This commentary reflects on the Turkish government’s recent ‘opening’ to address the Kurdish...
The AK Party’s chronic ‘political insecurity’ may have passed a threshold as the ruling party...
Articles
Turkey successfully gained provisional membership of the United Nations Security Council by...
The arrival of the Obama administration has created opportunities for positive and enduring...
Hamas Charter has sparked a lot of controversy, both inside and outside the organization. This...
This article tests Mancur Olson’s theory of distributional coalitions against the case of the...
Conventional models developed through the conceptual lenses of modernization theory dating back...
The recent emergence of Muslim democratic parties such as AKP in Turkey and PJD in Morocco draws...
Islam and democracy are said to be in a relationship fraught with problems as the former,...
While the question of the relationship between Islam and democracy continues to attract...
This essay examines the validity of the argument that the alleged theological lack of...
Book Reviews
Over 11 million illegal immigrants reside in the United States, and a projected 1,400 new...
In the Long Shadow of Europe brings together 14 articles on Greece and Turkey with the purpose of...
Scholars of diplomatic history and politics have long debated the question of how U.S. foreign...
For the general reader interested in global political affairs Islamist organizations like the...
What happens if a liberal philosopher writes a book about religion and the public life? He will...
It is increasingly recognized that effective state interventionism is a key ingredient of...
It is comparatively well-known now that the late Albert Hourani came rather to regret the title...
Feroz Ahmad once described contemporary Turks as suffering from the “Sèvres Complex,” by which he...
In light of the many texts that have been published recently which explore the vast history of...
This volume is composed of twenty- four essays by many prominent figures in Ottoman studies in...