Muslim secular democracy voices from within

The book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the framework of secular democracy in the Muslim World.

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Main Author: Lily Zubaidah Rahim 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the spirit of Wasatiyyah democracy / Lily Zubaidah Rahim
  • Religious secularity: reconciliation between political Islam and secular democracy / Naser Ghobadzadeh
  • The spirited voices of Muslim women in Islamic reform movements / Amina Wadud
  • Progressive Islam and Quranic hermeneutics: The reification of religion and theories of religious experience / Safdar Ahmed
  • Democracy for Muslims: Javed Ahmed Ghamidi / Samina Yasmeen
  • Muslim support for secular democracy / Pippa Norris
  • Secularism and religious freedom: challenging the postsecular / Bronwyn Winter
  • The crisis of state-led Islamization and authoritarian communal governance in Malaysia / Lily Zubaidah Rahim
  • Sisters in Islam: engendering Islamic law reform in Malaysia / Ratna Osman and Catherine Hirst
  • Religious pluralism, inclusive secularism and democratic constitutionalism: the Indonesian experience / Nadirsyah Hosen
  • Voices of dissent: social movements and political change in Egypt / Tara Povey
  • Militant laicists, Muslim democrats and liberal secularists: contending visions of secularism in Turkey / Christopher Houston