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Hameed Agberemi
Nigeria and Global Islamism: Human Rights, Governance and Peace-building
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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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Asma Afsaruddin, Associate professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame
Tolerance and Diversity in Islam
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Helen Bielefeldt and Mohammad Saeed Bahamanpour
The politics of social justice: religion versus human rights?
Religion, Secularism and Human Rights, Responses to Heiner Bielefeldt and Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour
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Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
"Building Democracy in the Muslim World"
-- Address by Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
U.S. State Department
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Suleyman Demirel, President of the Republic of Turkey
The compatibility of Islam, Democracy and Secularism
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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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Mustafa Erdogan
Islam, Democracy and Secularism: Is There Any Way to Democracy with Islam?
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Jeff Haynes, Professor of Politics and co-developer of the International Relations program at London Guildhall University
Religion in Global Politics: Explaining Deprivatization
Religion and Political Transformation
The Renaissance of 'Political' Religion in the Third World in the Context of Global Change
‘Religious Fundamentalism and Politics’
Understanding Religion and Political Change in Africa
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Journal of Democracy, 7.2, April 1996; section on Islam and Democracy
Abdou Filali-Ansary, The Challenge of Secularization
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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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Charles Hirschkind, PhD candidate in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University
What is Political Islam?, Middle East Report, October-December 1997
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Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society
A Declaration of the Rights of Women in Islamic Societies
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Azam Kamguian, NTPI.org
"Crimes of Honour": Women's Tragedy Under Islam and Tribal Customs
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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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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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S. Parvez Manzoor, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue
Islam and Human Rights: A Modernist Guide
Freedom of Expression and Islam
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The Message Online, Selected Issues
Islam and Secularism, April-May 2001
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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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Louay M. Safi, Director, International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, VA, USA
Islam and the Secular State: Explicating the Universal in Formative Islamic Political Norms
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