A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy

Ravza Altunta?- ak?r examines the ideals, institutions, and processes that shape the development of a concrete Muslim-based democratic system, recognizing the centrality of religion in Muslim societies. It adopts a comparative political theory approach to initiate a dialogue between Muslim and Western political thought and studies debates concerning Muslim political thought, multiculturalism, secularism, the public sphere, and constitutionalism.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The book proposes a framework of Muslim democracy that reconciles public claims made by Muslims with the normative and practical demands of democratic regimes. It constructs a Muslim democracy framework, inspired by Muslim and Western multiculturalist political thought, that provides an inclusive typology of Muslim political thought to discover essential norms for democratic thinking. It provides an inclusive typology of multiculturalism elaborating upon its capacity to reconcile democracy with religion, synthesises these theoretical concepts and values to provide interpretative tools for a comparative political analysis of Muslim democracy, and provides a scholarly construction of the notion of a political theory of Muslim democracy.

Ravza Altunta?- ak?r examines the ideals, institutions, and processes that shape the development of a concrete Muslim-based democratic system, a form of democracy that recognises the centrality of religion in Muslim societies. Questioning the customary characterisations of Islam's compatibility with democracy, the book adopts a comparative political theory approach that initiates a dialogue between Muslim and Western political thought. It systematically studies debates concerning Muslim political thought, multiculturalism, secularism, the public sphere, and constitutionalism, which enables an exploration of Muslim democracy through a political theory approach, rather than a theological one.

The book proposes a framework of Muslim democracy that reconciles public claims made by Muslims with the normative and practical demands of democratic regimes. It constructs a Muslim democracy framework, inspired by Muslim and Western multiculturalist political thought, that provides an inclusive typology of Muslim political thought to discover essential norms for democratic thinking. It provides an inclusive typology of multiculturalism elaborating upon its capacity to reconcile democracy with religion, synthesises these theoretical concepts and values to provide interpretative tools for a comparative political analysis of Muslim democracy, and provides a scholarly construction of the notion of a political theory of Muslim democracy.

The book proposes a framework of Muslim democracy that reconciles public claims made by Muslims with the normative and practical demands of democratic regimes. It constructs a Muslim democracy framework, inspired by Muslim and Western multiculturalist political thought, that provides an inclusive typology of Muslim political thought to discover essential norms for democratic thinking. It provides an inclusive typology of multiculturalism elaborating upon its capacity to reconcile democracy with religion, synthesises these theoretical concepts and values to provide interpretative tools for a comparative political analysis of Muslim democracy, and provides a scholarly construction of the notion of a political theory of Muslim democracy.

The book proposes a framework of Muslim democracy that reconciles public claims made by Muslims with the normative and practical demands of democratic regimes. It constructs a Muslim democracy framework, inspired by Muslim and Western multiculturalist political thought, that provides an inclusive typology of Muslim political thought to discover essential norms for democratic thinking. It provides an inclusive typology of multiculturalism elaborating upon its capacity to reconcile democracy with religion, synthesises these theoretical concepts and values to provide interpretative tools for a comparative political analysis of Muslim democracy, and provides a scholarly construction of the notion of a political theory of Muslim democracy.

Weight: 502g
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474479530