highlight the strong relationship between Islamic actors' political power considerations and support for democracy. -- Islam …This paper investigates when and how Islamic political actors support democracy, and in particular, the EU's democratic … support for democracy and related EU-demanded reforms, which ultimately improved their fragile domestic power position. In …

Is Islam compatible with democracy? While recent developments in Northern Africa and the Middle East have added new … Muslim world, also analyzing potential causes -- rooted in Islam or otherwise -- of a failure of democracy to deliver. We … democracy, but democratic institutions not actually taking hold in the Islamic world. We contribute to the debate by shifting …

. Ijtihad represents the untold story behind the big picture of any proposal for Islamic democracy. Both Polit-Islam, through … its main tool Jihad, and Intell-Islam, through its main tool Ijtihad, represent the heart and mind of Islamic democracy …Religion is a timeless culture in the Middle East. This article interprets Islam not only as part of the problem of …