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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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Africa Action: Africa Policy E-Journal
Africa: Islam, Democracy and Public Opinion
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Hameed Agberemi
Nigeria and Global Islamism: Human Rights, Governance and Peace-building
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Hashem Aghajari
From Monkey to Man: a call for Islamic Protestantism
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Dr. Nayyer Ali
Islam, the State, and Human Rights
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Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School of Law, Emory University
Islam and Human Rights, in Tikkun magazine
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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
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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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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Mustafa Erdogan
Islam, Democracy and Secularism: Is There Any Way to Democracy with Islam?
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Nicole Hallett
Parliament and the Prophet:
Islamic Conceptions of Democracy and Human Rights
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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
Understanding Religion and Political Change in Africa
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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
Kubba Laith, Recognizing Pluralism
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Bernard Haykel, Assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University
Islam and the struggle within,Media Monitors Network, August 31, 2003
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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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Zlatko Isakovic, Senior Research Fellow, Independent Center for Strategic Studies, Belgrade, University, Ottawa, Canada, Founding President Balkan Peace International Research Network
The Role of the University in Ethnic Conflict Transformation, democratization, and developing human rights in the Balkans
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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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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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Mohamed Mahmoud, Tufts University
Islam and Islamization in Sudan: The Islamic National Front
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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
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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Kamran Memon
Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Iraq
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The Message Online, Selected Issues
Islam and Democracy: Unveiling a Relationship, April-May 2002
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Nema Milaninia
Reconstructing Interpretations of Islam from the Grassroots: Human Rights and the Case of Iran
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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
Understanding Islam: Challenges to Democracy and Diversity
Shura and Democracy: Similarities and Differences
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Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, United Bank for Africa PLC
Democracy, Human Rights and Islam: Theory, Epistemology and the Quest for Synthesis, Text of a paper presented at an international conference on "Shari’ah Penal and Family Law in Nigeria and in the Muslim World: A Rights Based Approach" organized by the International Human Rights Law Group and held at Rockview Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria, August 5-7, 2003
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Bobby Sayyid , Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue
Democracy and Islamism.
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A'an Suryana, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Islam compatible to democracy: Scholars
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United States Institute of Peace, Islam and Democracy Symposium. Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
Islam and Democracy Symposium Summary
Islam and Democracy - Special Report 93
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