Muslim Secular Democracy

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