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Ali R. Abootalebi, Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Islam, Islamists, and Democracy, MERIA Journal, Volume 3, No. 1 - March 1999
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Hashem Aghajari
From Monkey to Man: a call for Islamic Protestantism
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Salbiah Ahmad
The freedom of religion impasse and powers of the High Court, First published in INSAF, the journal of the Malaysian Bar at (2003) XXXII No. 3, 60.
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Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School of Law, Emory University
Downloadable articles and essays
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Margot Badran, Visiting Research Professor, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Exploring Islamic Feminism
"Islamic Feminism Means Justice to Women" (interview)
Two Heads are Better than One
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Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
Why Democracy and Why Now?" May 16-17, 2003, Annual Conference
"Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East Today" -- Address by Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egyptian Human Rights Activist;
Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center, Egypt
"Democratic Change and American Policy in the Middle East"
-- Address by William J. Burns, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, U.S. State Department
"Building Democracy in the Muslim World"
-- Address by Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
U.S. State Department
"Islamisation and Its Impact on Democratic Governance and Women's Rights in Islam: A Feminist Perspective" -- Address by Zainah Anwar
Executive Director
Sisters in Islam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
"Islamocracy: In Search of a Muslim Path to Democracy" -- Address by Ali A. Mazrui, CSID Chair
Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University
"Why Democracy and Why Now?" -- Abdulaziz Sachedina, University of Virginia, CSID Board Member
Conference Papers
CSID Publications
Muslim Democrat -CDID's quarterly newsletter
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Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue
The "Democratic Deficit" in the Muslim World
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Asghar Ali Engineer, Institute for Islamic Studies, Mumbai, India
Muslims, Modernity, and Change
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Graham E. Fuller, Former Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA
Islam: A Force for Change
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Francis Fukuyama, Professor of international political economy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Can Any Good Come Of Radical Islam?
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Journal of Democracy, 7.2, April 1996; section on Islam and Democracy
Bernard Lewis, A Historical Overview
Robin B. Wright, Two Visions of Reformation
Abdou Filali-Ansary, The Challenge of Secularization
Mohamed Elhachmi Hamdi, The Limits of the Western Model
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Mansoor Hekmat
Islam, Children's Rights, and the Hijab-gate of Rah-e-Kargar: In Defence of the Prohibition of the Islamic Veil for Children
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Prof. Metin Heper, Bilkent University, Ankara
The Justice and Development Party: Towards a Reconciliation of Islam and Democracy in Turkey?, 2003 Annual Georges A. Kaller Lecture, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
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Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School and Center for the Study of Developing Societies, Cairo University
International Aspects of the Arab Human Rights Movement, an interdisciplinary discussion held in Cairo, March 1998
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Mohammed Athar Javed, Research Fellow, The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen,
The Future of Reform in Iran
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Muqtedar Khan, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue
The Condition of Muslim Women: What Can We do?
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Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Liberal Islam: Prospects and Challenges, Meria, Vol 3, No 3, September 1999
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Abdallah Laroui, Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow
Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam: Mutual Distrust, Lecture delivered at the Middle East Studies Association annual
meeting in Providence, RI)
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Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Islam and Justice: Debating the Future of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
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Anh Nga Longva, University of Bergen
The apostasy law in the age of universal human rights and citizenship: Some legal and political implications
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Mohamed Mahmoud, Tufts University
Islam and Islamization in Sudan: The Islamic National Front
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Hadayai Majeed, The Milli Gazette
Muslim Women: The Gatekeepers of Our Own Oppression
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Chibli Mallat, Jean Monnet Chair of European Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of the European Union at the University of Saint Joseph, Beirut
"The Middle East in the 21st Century: An agenda for reform". Lecture delivered at the School of Oriental and African Studies, 22 October 1996, on the occasion of the booklaunch of The Middle East into the 21st Century, Ithaca Press, UK, 1996
Introduction: On Islam and Democracy. In Chibli Mallat, editor, Islamic Public Law: Classical and Contemporary studies,
London ; Boston : Graham & Trotman, 1993.
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S. Parvez Manzoor, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue
Islam and Human Rights: A Modernist Guide
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Ebrahim Moosa, Associate Research Professor, Department of Religion, and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Muslim Networks, Duke University, North Carolina
The Dilemma of Islamic Rights Schemes. Journal of Law and Religion, V. 15, N. 1& 2, 2002-2001
The Poetics and Politics of Law After Empire: Reading Women's Rights in the Contestations of Law
. UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, V. 1, N. 1, Fall/Winter 2001-2002
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Dr. Farish A. Noor
Articles from column, 'The Other Malaysia', Malaysiakini.com. Reproduced with kind permission of, and thanks to, Malaysiakini.com
"We need new intellectual tools for the age we live in" , Dec. 11, 2003, Malaysiakini.com
"Islam and the modern Muslim intellectual", Dec. 18, 2003, Malaysiakini.com
"Democracy and the universalism of Islam", Dec. 25, 2003, Malaysiakini.com
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Fathi Osman
"Islam Should be Recognized as Dynamic, Flexible Religion" , Al-Hewar Center, The Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue,
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Louay M. Safi, Director, International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, VA, USA
Human Rights and Cultural Reform in Contemporary Muslim Society: From Hegemonic Discourse to Cross-Cultural Dialogue.
Human Rights and Islamic Legal Reform
The Transforming Experience of American Muslims: Islamic Education and Political Maturation
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William Schabas, Professor and chair of the department of law at the University of Quebec, Montreal.
Islam and the Death Penalty.
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Ali Shariati
Where Shall We Begin?.
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Bivitri Susanti, Centre for Indonesian Law and Policy Studies
Constitution And Human Rights Provisions In Indonesia: An Unfinished Task In The Transitional Process
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Knut S. Vikor, Director, Director, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Bergen
"The development of ijtihad and Islamic reform, 1750-1850",
The third Nordic conference on Middle Eastern Studies: Ethnic encounter and culture change Joensuu, Finland, 19-22 June 1995
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Gerald (Jay) Williams
Human Rights in Sudan: At the Crossroads of Activism and Academia, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Undergraduate Research Award Report
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