DEMOCRACY IN ISLAMIC WORLD. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
DEMOCRACY IN ISLAMIC WORLD. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the link between religion – as element of individuals’ identities – and the political decision in Islamic world, the influence of religion and churches over the social, political and military life, the relationship between religion and the governing system. After September 11, 2001, Islam became without any meaning for some persons or communities, ascertaining the fundamentalism and the return to fundaments of religion give a restrictive interpretation to the religious norm and try to impose it in any conditions and towards any persons. Opposing to globalization and modernity, Islamic society maintains religion in public sphere and strongly promotes it. In these states, the religious authority is unanimously recognized and accepted and religion exercises a quasi-total influence over all aspects of social life, regardless it is about public or private space. Or, in these conditions, it is to be seen if democracy could be implemented in Islamic states.

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