Islam and Democracy
What Is the Real Question?
Published on 1. October 2025
24 pages
978-1-040-77904-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-77904-0 (9781040779040)
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03/2007
Pallas Publications
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Person
Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies and holds the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University. He is the author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (2007) and Street Politics: Poor People's Movements in Iran (1997).
Content
Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question? Islam, Democracy and Spcial Movements, Islamism: Movement and World View, What is Post-Islamism?
