Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 January 2016
- ISBN 9780195147988
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 236x160x30 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book analyzes the nature of the relationship between religion and politics by using democracy in the Muslim world and the phenomenon of the Arab Spring as a case study.
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In late 2010, the wave of civil resistance known as the Arab Spring stunned the world as dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya were overthrown, while the regimes of Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen brutally suppressed their own revolutions. The Islamic political parties of Tunisia and Egypt have gained particular attention for their success in the national elections following the overthrow of their regimes, and similar electoral success has been seen in Morocco and is predicted throughout the Arab world and beyond in the broader Middle East and in Southeast Asia.
While the opposition movements of the Arab Spring are distinctive, each has raised questions regarding equality, economic justice, democratic participation, and the relationship between Islam and democracy in their respective countries, such as: does democracy require a secular political regime? And are religious movements the most effective opponents of authoritarian secularist regimes? The argument that that Islamic political groups' participation in democratic processes is only a ruse to actually impose an anti-democratic theocracy once in power continues to be made, often by former political and economic elites and secularists who would prefer a secularist autocracy to a democracy in which religious parties might control the government.
In Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring, renowned Islamic Studies and History scholars John Esposito, Tamara Sonn, and John Voll examine these uprisings and the democratic process in the Muslim world, while also analyzing the larger relationship between religion and politics. Expanding upon issues initially raised by Esposito and Voll in the mid-1990s with Islam and Democracy, Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring applies a twenty-first century perspective to the question of whether or not Islam is "compatible" with democracy by redirecting the conversation towards a new politic of democracy that transcends both secular authoritarianism and Political Islam.
This valuable book is highly recommended for understanding the contemporary dilemma of Muslin states caught, as they are, between modernity, tradition and certain ideologies.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Islam, Democracy and Turkey's Secular State
Chapter 3: Iran: Classical Themes and Contemporary Challenges
Chapter 4: Pakistan: A Work in Progress
Chapter 5: Indonesia: From Military Rule to Democracy
Chapter 6: Senegal: Democracy and the Post-Colonial State
Chapter 7: Tunisia: From Revolution to Republic
Chapter 8: Egypt: From Democratization to the Restoration of Authoritarianism
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Notes
Index
