Archive for September, 2002

God’s Rule and the People’s Rule

By • Sep 30th, 2002 • Category: Works On Soroush

Excerpted from draft of Noah Feldman, After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (forthcoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux Spring ’03).  Not for quotation.       How, exactly, might Islam and democracy coexist?  The sine qua non of democracy is collective self-government through popular elections.  If one looks at the medieval classics of […]


Islam and Democracy

By • Sep 1st, 2002 • Category: Works On Soroush

Briefly… Democracy building remains an uphill struggle in most Muslim countries. The explanation of why so many Muslim countries are not democratic has more to do with historical, political, cultural, and economic factors than with religious ones. Nevertheless, many Muslim activists, using broad and sometimes crude notions of secularism and sovereignty, consider democracy to be […]