Muslim Secular Democracy

Lily Zubaidah Rahim is an associate professor of Government and Interantional Relations at University of Sydney.

The book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the framework of secular democracy in the Muslim World.

The internationally renowned, established and emerging scholars in the edited volume are specialists of secularism, democratization, gender rights and Islam. In particular, Amina Wadud, Nadir Hashimi and Pippa Norris are internationally renowned scholars on Islamic hermeneutics, Muslim societies and secularism. The other chapters extend the analytical and conceptual boundaries by their integrated 'rethinking' of Islam, secularism, democracy and constitutionalism

Introduction: The Spirit of Wasatiyyah Democracy; Lily Zubaidah Rahim CONCEPTUALIZING WASATIYYAH DEMOCRACY 1. Religious Secularity: Reconciliation between Political Islam and Secular Democracy; Naser Ghobadzadeh 2. The Spirited Voices of Muslim Women in Islamic Reform Movements; Amina Wadud 3. Progressive Islam and Qur'anic Hermeneutics: The Reification of Religion and Theories of Religious Experience; Safdar Ahmed 4. Democracy for Muslims: Javed Ahmed Ghamidi; Samina Yasmeen 5. Muslim support for secular democracy; Pippa Norris 6. Secularism and Religious Freedom: Challenging the 'Postsecular'; Bronwyn Winter POLITICAL RESISTANCE AND REFORM 7. The Crisis of State-led Islamization and Authoritarian Communal Governance in Malaysia; Lily Zubaidah Rahim 8. Sisters in Islam: Engendering Islamic Law Reform in Malaysia; Ratna Osman and Catherine Hirst 9. Religious Pluralism, Inclusive Secularism and Democratic Constitutionalism: The Indonesian Experience; Nadirsyah Hosen 10. Voices of Dissent: Social Movements and Political Change in Egypt; Tara Povey 11. Militant Laicists, Muslim Democrats and Liberal Secularists: Contending Visions of Secularism in Turkey; Christopher Houston