Author: Abdelwahab El-Affendi | Journal of Democracy

Abdelwahab El-Affendi is a senior research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, and coordinator of the Centre’s Project on Democracy in the Muslim World. His books include Who Needs an Islamic State? (1991) and Rethinking Islam and Modernity (2001).

April 2003, Volume 14, Issue 2

What Is Liberal Islam?: The Elusive Reformation

Abdelwahab El-Affendi

An “Islamic Reformation” is not a necessary condition for the emergence of democracy in the Muslim world; what is most needed is a political reformation.

Islam and Democracy in the Middle East

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Daniel Brumberg

World Religions and Democracy

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Philip J. Costopoulos

Can religion be compatible with liberal democracy? This volume brings together insights from renowned scholars and world leaders in a provocative discussion of religions' role in the success or failure of democracy.