Azim Zahir, "Islam and Democracy in the Maldives "
English | ISBN: 1032015535 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 394 KB
English | ISBN: 1032015535 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 394 KB
This book examines Islam’s relationship to democratization in the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives. It explores how and why an electoral democracy based in a constitution that has many liberal features but also Islam-based limitations, especially lack of religious freedom, emerged in the country by 2009. In doing so, the book interrogates a major approach to Muslim politics that assumes reformist interpretations of Islam are a positive, and even a necessary, force for liberalization and democratization in Muslim-majority contexts.
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