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- Title: Democracy in Muslim Contexts: What Africa can Bring to the Discussion? (Report)
- Author : Insight Turkey
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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In both scholarly and policy circles, the question of the relationship between Islam and democracy continues to sustain a small research industry and to generate a steady stream of publications, reports and commentaries. Strikingly absent from much of this debate, however, are the Muslim-majority countries of Africa south of the Sahara. The omission is glaring; at times whole books on "Islam and democracy" make virtually no mention of African cases. This not only misses an important part of the empirical reality of the Muslim world today, but it ignores some cases with potentially very instructive experiences for the broader debate. The question of which countries might be considered "democracies" in the Muslim world depends largely on how one counts, in other words, on what criteria are used and how countries are judged to meet such criteria. By virtually any criteria, however, African cases must be considered. One recent effort, around which a panel was organized at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, used various comparative indices to identify five democracies among Muslim-majority countries: Indonesia, Turkey, Albania, Mali and Senegal. (1) This is of course a highly eclectic set of countries, and it is unclear what if anything they might share that makes of them exceptional cases in the Muslim world. But it is nevertheless striking that two of the five are sub-Saharan African countries.
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