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Is Islam compatible with democracy? The text examines one of the most frequently-asked and yet misguided questions. Democratic ethos should not and cannot be deduced from some essence of religions supposedly inscribed in the scriptures. Rather, they are the outcome of political struggles that push Islam toward democratic or authoritarian directions. Asef Bayat offers a new approach to examine Islam and democracy arguing how the social struggles of diverse Muslim populations, those with different interests and orientation, render Islam to embrace democratic ideas or authoritarian disposition. -Islamism and -post-Islamism are discussed as representing two contrasting movements which have taken Islam into different, authoritarian and inclusive, political directions.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology

• Full title: Islam and Democracy
• Subtitle: What Is the Real Question?
• Author: Asef Bayat
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24
• EAN: 9789053569832
• ISBN: 9053569839
• ID: 05054121
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Weight: 50 g
• Dimensions: 185 × 158 × 2 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. March 2007

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