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Title Modernization, democracy, and Islam / edited by Shireen T. Hunter and Huma Malik ; foreword by Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  320.91767 M72 2005    ---  Available
Description xiii, 361 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note "Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-349) and index.
Contents Introduction / Shireen T. Hunter -- Culture and development / Heather Deegan -- Responses to modernization : Muslim experience in a comparative perspective / Timothy McDaniel -- Development and democracy : the Muslim world in a comparative perspective / Mehran Kamrava -- Islam and modernity : are they compatible? / Tamara Sonn -- Islam and democracy : is modernization a barrier? / John O. Voll -- Is gender inequality in Muslim societies a barrier to modernization and democratization? / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Role of the military / Elizabeth Picard -- Lessons from Latin America for the Muslim world / Bruce W. Farcau -- Political geography of the Arab private sector / Giacomo Luciani -- Systemic factors and economic development in Islamic countries / Peter Nunnenkamp -- Muslim world's poor record of modernization and democratization : the interplay of external and internal factors / Mohammed Ayoob -- Arab liberal legacies full circle / Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Hindrances to democracy and modernization in Indonesia / Fred R. von der Mehden -- Malaysia's path to modernization and democratization / Osman Bakar -- Islam, modernization, and democratization : the case of Iran / Shireen T. Hunter -- Secular democracy in the Muslim world : the Turkish model / Binnaz Toprak -- Central Asia and Azerbaijan / Mehrdad Haghayeghi -- Roots of sub-Saharan Africa's modernization and democratization dilemmas / Chuka Onwumechili -- Conclusion and suggested remedies / Shireen T. Hunter.
Subject Islamic countries -- Politics and government.
Democratization -- Islamic countries.
Political culture -- Islamic countries.
Islamic countries -- Civilization.
Islam and politics.
Added Author Hunter, Shireen.
Malik, Huma.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
ISBN 027598530X (pbk. : alk. paper)
0275985113 (alk. paper)

 
    
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