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Hameed Agberemi

Nigeria and Global Islamism: Human Rights, Governance and Peace-building

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.

Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School of Law, Emory University

Downloadable articles and essays

Asma Afsaruddin, Associate professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame

Tolerance and Diversity in Islam

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

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

Suleyman Demirel, President of the Republic of Turkey

The compatibility of Islam, Democracy and Secularism

Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue

The "Democratic Deficit" in the Muslim World

Asghar Ali Engineer, Institute for Islamic Studies, Mumbai, India

Muslims, Modernity, and Change

Mustafa Erdogan

Islam, Democracy and Secularism: Is There Any Way to Democracy with Islam?

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

Journal of Democracy, 7.2, April 1996; section on Islam and Democracy

Abdou Filali-Ansary, The Challenge of Secularization

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

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

Charles Hirschkind, PhD candidate in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University

What is Political Islam?, Middle East Report, October-December 1997

Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society

A Declaration of the Rights of Women in Islamic Societies

Azam Kamguian, NTPI.org

"Crimes of Honour": Women's Tragedy Under Islam and Tribal Customs

Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Liberal Islam: Prospects and Challenges, Meria, Vol 3, No 3, September 1999

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)

Anh Nga Longva, University of Bergen

The apostasy law in the age of universal human rights and citizenship: Some legal and political implications

S. Parvez Manzoor, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue

Islam and Human Rights: A Modernist Guide

Freedom of Expression and Islam

The Message Online, Selected Issues

Islam and Secularism, April-May 2001

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

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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