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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814344303321

Autore

Kubicek Paul

Titolo

Political Islam and democracy in the Muslim world / / Paul Kubicek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado ; ; London, [England] : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-62637-539-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Disciplina

321.8091767

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Islamic countries

Democracy - Islamic countries

Political culture - Islamic countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Islam and democracy : exploring the relationship -- Turkey : democracy and the dynamics of secularism -- Malaysia : Islam and nationalism in a semidemocratic state -- Pakistan : democracy after Islamization? -- Bangladesh : politicized Islam in a debilitated democracy -- Mali : a least-likely case of democratization -- Indonesia : democratization amid competing visions of Islam -- Senegal : Sufi brotherhoods, secularism, and gradual democratization -- The Arab Spring and Muslim democracy : looking back, looking forward.

Sommario/riassunto

Belying assertions of the incompatibility of Islam and democracy, many Muslim-majority countries are now or have been democratic. Paul Kubicek draws on the experiences of those countries to explore the relationship between political manifestations of Islam and democratic politics. Kubicek's comparative analysis allows him to highlight the common features that create conditions amenable to democratic development in Muslim-majority countries—and to show how actors in Muslim democracies in fact draw on concepts within Islam to contribute to democratization.