Islamic democracy | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:37 1 Traditional political concepts
00:01:48 1.1 Quran
00:03:20 1.2 Sunni Islam
00:05:21 1.3 Shia Islam
00:06:13 2 Theoretical perspectives on democracy
00:06:25 2.1 Al-Farabi
00:07:39 2.2 Varieties of modern Islamic theories
00:10:03 2.3 Secularist views
00:11:31 2.4 Muhammad Iqbal
00:12:24 2.5 Muhammad Asad
00:13:27 2.6 Abul A'la Maududi
00:14:38 2.7 L. Ali Khan
00:15:22 2.8 Javed Ahmed Ghamdi
00:15:55 3 Views of the general Muslim public
00:17:29 4 Islam and democracy in practice
00:17:40 4.1 Obstacles
00:20:00 4.1.1 Brian Whitaker's 'four major obstacles'
00:23:32 4.2 Practice
00:29:38 4.2.1 Pakistan
00:31:42 4.2.2 Iran
00:31:50 4.2.2.1 Theory
00:35:09 4.2.2.2 Practice
00:38:00 5 Indices of democracy in Muslim countries
00:39:02 6 Islamic democratic parties and organizations
00:39:35 7 See also



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There exist a number of perspectives on the relationship of Islam and democracy among Islamic political theorists, the general Muslim public, and Western authors.
Some modern Islamic thinkers, whose ideas were particularly popular in the 1970s and 1980s, rejected the notion of democracy as a foreign idea incompatible with Islam. Others have argued that traditional Islamic notions such as shura (consultation), maslaha (public interest), and ʿadl (justice) justify representative government institutions which are similar to Western democracy, but reflect Islamic rather than Western liberal values. Still others have advanced liberal democratic models of Islamic politics based on pluralism and freedom of thought. Some Muslim thinkers have advocated secularist views of Islam.A number of different attitudes regarding democracy are also represented among the general Muslim public, with polls indicating that majorities in the Muslim world desire a political model where democratic institutions and values can coexist with the values and principles of Islam, seeing no contradiction between the two. In practice, political history of the modern Muslim world has often been marked by undemocratic practices in states of both secular and religious character. Analysts have suggested a number of reasons for this, including the legacy of colonialism, oil wealth, the Arab-Israeli conflict, authoritarian secularist rulers, "the mind-set of Islam" and Islamic fundamentalism.