After jihad : America and the struggle for Islamic democracy

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After jihad : America and the struggle for Islamic democracy

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America and the struggle for Islamic democracy

Statement of responsibility

Noah Feldman

Creator

• Feldman, Noah, 1970-

Subject

• Islam and politics -- Islamic countries
• Islam and world politics
• Democracy -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Islamic countries -- Relations -- United States
• United States -- Relations -- Islamic countries
• Islamic countries -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

A lucid and compelling case for a new American stance toward the Islamic world. What comes after jihad? Outside the headlines, believing Muslims are increasingly calling for democratic politics in their undemocratic countries. But can Islam and democracy successfully be combined? Surveying the intellectual and geopolitical terrain of the contemporary Muslim world, Noah Feldman proposes that Islamic democracy is indeed viable and desirable, and that the West, particularly the United States, should work to bring it about, not suppress it. Encouraging democracy among Muslims threatens America's autocratic Muslim allies, and raises the specter of a new security threat to the West if fundamentalists are elected. But in the long term, the greater threat lies in continuing to support repressive regimes that have lost the confidence of their citizens. By siding with Islamic democrats rather than the regimes that repress them, the United States can bind them to the democratic principles they say they support, reducing anti-Americanism and promoting a durable peace in the Middle East. After Jihad gives the context for understanding how the many Muslims who reject religious violence see the world after the globalization of democracy

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

321.8/0917/671

Index

index present

LC call number

BP190.5.D45

LC item number

F45 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography