DEMOCRACY & POLITICAL ORDER

A Comparative Approach to Islam and Democracy, Fethullah Gulen http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=270_0_22_0_C

Court Case that Could Reshape American Democracy, Rupert Cornwell http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1211-02.htm

Democracy and the Majority principle in islamic Legal-Political Thought, Ermin Sinanovic http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=248_0_22_0_C

Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East Today”, Saad Eddin Ibrahim http://www.islam-democracy.org/4th_Annual_Conference-Ibrahim_address.asp

Democracy, For Export Only, by David Pauling http://www.davidpauling.com/

Democracy in Action, Dr. Abdelwahab el-Effendi, http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=17_0_22_0_C

Democracy, Islam and oil, Wahida Valiante http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=360_0_22_0_C

Democracy: The Religious ad the Political in Contemporary Islamic Debate, Dr. Azzam Tamimi, Part I http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=250_0_22_0_C Part II http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=249_0_22_0_C

Democracy According to Traditional Islamic Sources, ISCA,
http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/bin/site/ftp/ISCA%20-%20Islam%20and%20Democracy.htm

Do Muslims Deserve Democracy?, Abdelwahab El-Affendi, http://www.newint.org/issue345/democracy.htm#key

Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois and the Rationale for the American Revolution, Bruce Johansen.  The full text of the book is online at http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/FF.html

Future of Democracy in Iran, Dr. Ali Paya, http://www.islam21.net/pages/keyissues/key6-1.htm

Getting Worse for the Arabs, Edward Said http://www.mfsd.org/debate/edward.htm

House Votes 309-118 to Scale Back Patriot Act; FCC Rules May Be Overturned Too http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/164226

If We’re Promoting Democracy, Why Not Support it in Turkey, Grenville Byford, Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A15073-2002Oct11̬Found=true

Illusion of Choice, Matthew Riemer http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=845

In Search of a Muslim Path to Democracy, Ali Mazrui, http://www.islam-democracy.org/4th_Annual_Conference-Mazrui_address.asp

Institutions of Democracy Are More Important Than Democracy, Tarek Heggy, http://www.heggy.org/recent_articles.htm

Is the U.S. Ready for Democracy?, Davis Newsom http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=6671

Is President Bush Pushing for Democracy Too Early in Iraq?, Radwan Masmoudi http://www.islam-democracy.org/art_im_dec-1-2003.asp

Islam, Islamists, and Democracy, Ali r. Abootalebi, http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=256_0_22_0_C

Islam and Democracy: A Lesson From Turkey, Justin Smith http://www.counterpunch.org/smith05152004.html

Islam and Democracy Rejoinder, John O. Voll and John Esposito, http://www.meforum.org/article/200

Islam & Constitutional Rights, Iftekhar Hai, http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003may_comments.php?id=299_0_20_0_C

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy by Khaled Abou El Fadl
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/abou.html Excellent article which attempts to answer the question: How, then, can a democratic conception of the peoples authority be reconciled with an Islamic understanding of GodҒs authority?  This article has received a lot of attention and responses from other scholars. 
-Response from John Esposito http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/esposito.html
- Response from Nader Hashemi http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/hashemi.html
- Response from Noah Feldman http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/feldman.html
- Response from Jeremy Waldron http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/waldron.html
- Response from Muqtedar Khan http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/khan.html
- Response of A. Kevin Reinhart http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/reinhart.html
- Response of Saba Mahmood http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/mahmood.html
- Response from Mohamed Fadel http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/fadel.html
- Response from Bernard Haykel http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/haykel.html
- Response from William Quandt http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/quandt.html
- Khaled Abou El Fadl Replies to Responses http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/abouRE.html

Islam’s Democratic Essence, John O. Voll and John Esposito, http://www.meforum.org/article/151

Islam’s Compatibility with Democracy, M.A. Muqtedar Khan, http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=255_0_22_0_C

Islamic legitimacy Without the Testimony of the Muslim Will?, Parvez Manzoor, http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003may_comments.php?id=300_0_20_0_C

Islamic Democracy vs. Fundamentalism, Gasser Hathout http://www.toobeautiful.org/lat_020927.html

Islamic Concept of a Political Order, G.W. Choudhury, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=241_0_22_30_C

Jihad vs. McWorld, Benjamin Barber, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/barberf.htm

Liberty for Muslims?, David R. Sands http://www.islam-democracy.org/art_wt_july-4-2003.asp

Notion of Shura: Shura or Democracy?, Dr. Tariq Ramadan, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=99_0_22_30_C

Promise & Peril: Prospects for Democracy in the Muslim World Today, Svend White, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003jul_comments.php?id=351_0_21_0_C

QUOTES
- Adams, John http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/John_Adams/
- Douglass, Frederick http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Booker_T._Washington/
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower/
- Einstein, Albert http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Albert_Einstein/
- Franklin, Benjamin http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Benjamin_Franklin/
- Gandhi, Mahatma http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mahatma_Gandhi/
- Jefferson, Thomas http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Thomas_Jefferson/
- King Jr., Martin Luther http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Martin_Luther_King_Jr./
- Washington, Booker T.http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Booker_T._Washington/

Selective Memory and a Dishonest Doctrine, Noam Chomsky, http://monkeyfist.com/ChomskyArchive/essays/selective_html

Shura, Democracy & the Muslim World, Suleman Dangor, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=16_0_22_30_C

Shura and the Islamic Vision of Democracy, M. Riaz Khan, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=176_0_22_30_C

Terror, Islam, and Democracy, Ladan Boroumand and Roya Boroumand, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=369_0_22_30_C

Tharwa Project, The http://www.tharwaproject.com/

Thomas Jefferson Quotes http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Thomas_Jefferson/

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Muslim World: A Barrier to Democracy, Muqtedar Khan http://www.glocaleye.org/forpoldem.htm

Understanding Islam: Challenges to Democracy and Plurality, Louay Safi http://home.att.net/~louaysafi/articles/2002/understanding.htm

We Had a Democracy Once, But You Crushed It, Russell Mokhiber http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0810-06.htm