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Islam, Justice, and Democracy
Contributor(s): Ciftci, Sabri (Author)
ISBN: 1439921504     ISBN-13: 9781439921500
Publisher: Temple University Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | World - Middle Eastern
- Religion | Islam - General
Dewey: 297.272
LCCN: 2021015324
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 221 pages
 
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Justice (al-'adl) is one of the principal values of the Islamic faith. In Islam, Justice, and Democracy, Sabri Ciftci explores the historical, philosophical, and empirical foundations of justice to examine how religious values relate to Muslim political preferences and behavior. He focuses on Muslim agency and democracy to explain how ordinary Muslims use the conceptions of divine justice--either servitude to God or exercising free will against oppressors--to make sense of real-world problems.

Using ethnographic research, interviews, and public opinion surveys as well as the works of Islamist ideologues, archives of Islamist journals, and other sources, Ciftci shows that building contemporary incarnations of Islamist justice is, in essence, a highly practical political project that has formative effects on Muslim political attitudes. Islam, Justice, and Democracy compares the recent Arab Spring protests to the constitutionalist movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Middle East to demonstrate the continuities and rifts a century apart.

By putting justice at the center of democratic thinking in the Muslim world, Ciftci reconsiders Islam's potential in engendering both democratic ideals and authoritarian preferences.