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Hameed Agberemi
Nigeria and Global Islamism: Human Rights, Governance and Peace-building
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Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
Why Democracy and Why Now?" May 16-17, 2003, Annual Conference
"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
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Council on American Islamic Relations
The Status of Muslims Civil Rights in the United States 2001
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Khaled Abou El Fadl , Law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
Islam and the Theology of Power, Middle East Report 221, Winter 2001
The Place of Tolerance in Islam: On reading the Qur'an and misreading it
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Asghar Ali Engineer, Institute for Islamic Studies, Mumbai, India
Muslims, Modernity, and Change
Shari'ah Law, Civil Society, and Human Rights
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Mustafa Erdogan
Islam, Democracy and Secularism: Is There Any Way to Democracy with Islam?
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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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Jeff Haynes, Professor of Politics and co-developer of the International Relations program at London Guildhall University
Religion and Political Transformation
The Renaissance of 'Political' Religion in the Third World in the Context of Global Change
‘Religious Fundamentalism and Politics’
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Journal of Democracy, 7.2, April 1996; section on Islam and Democracy
Mohamed Elhachmi Hamdi, The Limits of the Western Model
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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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Azam Kamguian, NTPI.org
The Liberation of Women in the Middle East
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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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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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Paul Lubeck, Center for Global, International & Regional Studies (CGIRS), University of California Santa Cruz
Antinomies of Islamic Movements Under Globalization, CGIRS Working Paper Series
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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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Manzurul Mannan, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Science, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Islam, Gender and Conflict Models: NGOs and the Discursive Process
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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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Maryams.Net -- Muslim Women and their Islam
Biographical Sketches of Famous Muslim Women
Articles and essays on issues that affect Muslim women in the modern world
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Charles McDaniel, J.M Dawson Institute, Baylor University
Islam and the Global Society: A Religious Approach to Modernity, Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol 2003 No 2
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Kamran Memon
Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Iraq
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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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Chandra Muzaffar, President, International Movement for a Just World, Malaysia
Globalisation and Religion: Some Reflections
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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
Human Rights and Cultural Reform in Contemporary Muslim Society: From Hegemonic Discourse to Cross-Cultural Dialogue.
Islam and the Secular State: Explicating the Universal in Formative Islamic Political Norms
Shura and Democracy: Similarities and Differences
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Amartya Sen
Human Rights and the Westernizing Illusion, Revised version of commencement address given at Bard College on May 24, 1997
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Ali Shariati
The Human and Islam.
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Azim Tamimi, Director, Institute of Islamic Political Thought, London
Human Rights and Muslim Identity. Paper presented to the International Conference on 'Muslim Identity in the 21st Century: Challenges of Modernity', London, 31 October 1998
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