Download or read book Civil Society, Democracy and the Muslim World written by Elisabeth Özdalga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Islam compatible with democracy? As authoritarian regimes have held on to power and political radicalism has proliferated in the Muslim world, the tendency has been to answer the question in the negative. A closer look at the inner dynamics in these societies reveals, however, that total pessimism about the future prospects of democracy in this part of the world is not altogether justified.