Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn by Asef Bayat

Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn

Asef Bayat

320 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Whether Islam is compatible with democracy is an increasingly asked question, but ultimately a misguided one. In this book, Asef Bayat proposes that democratic ideals have less to do with the essence of any religion than with how it is practiced. ...

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