After Jihad : America and the struggle for Islamic democracy /
A lucid and compelling case for a new American stance toward the Islamic world. What comes after jihad? Outside the headlines, believing Muslims are increasingly calling for democratic politics in their undemocratic countries. But can Islam and democracy successfully be combined? Surveying the intel...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- The revolution that wasn't
- Islam and democracy in contact
- pt. 1 The idea of Islamic democracy
- Islamic democracy, not Islamist democracy
- Islam, the West, and the question of opposition
- Islam and democracy as mobile ideas
- The resilience of Islam
- God's rule and the people's rule
- Islamic equality
- Islamic liberty
- The universality of mobile ideas
- pt. 2. Varieties of Islamic democracy
- Democratization and Muslim reality : an overview
- Iran : Islamic democracy in the balance
- Turkey : the outlier
- Islam and democracy in South and Southeast Asia : mobility and possibility
- Pakistan : the Islamic state and the struggle for stability
- The diversity of the Arabs
- Monarchies with oil : the Rentier state in action
- Kings without oil
- The dictators and the Islamists : the puzzle of Egypt
- Regime change and its consequences : dictators with oil
- The big picture : Islam, democracy, and the contact of mobile ideas
- pt. 3. The necessity of Islamic democracy
- Why democracy? The pragmatic argument
- Neutralizing anti-Americanism by refuting it
- Doing the right thing
- How to do it
- Democracy's Muslim allies
- Imagining an Islamic democracy
- After Jihad
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.