Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. What is Democracy? -- Fundamental Principles of Democracy -- Equality -- Liberty -- Majority Rule -- Chapter Two. Democratic Norms in Islam -- Freedom -- Apostasy -- Equality -- Religious Minorities -- Slavery -- Male-Female Dichotomy -- Public Participation in Politics -- Shurā and Bay'ah -- Chapter Three. The Emergence of Muslim Intellectualism in Modern Iran -- Chapter Four. Religious Modernism and Democracy in Iran -- Ayatullah S. Mahmud Tāliqānī -- Mahdī Bāzargān -- A Biographical Sketch -- The Freedom Movement of Iran -- Refutation of Despotism -- Islamic Ideology -- 'Allāmah Muhammad H. Tabātabā'ī -- Ali Shari'ati -- Ayatullah M. Mutahharī -- Ayatullah R. Khomeini -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter Five. Post-Revolutionary Religious Intellectuals and Democracy. Abdulkarim Soroush -- Abdulkarim Soroush -- A Biographical Sketch -- The Theory of Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge -- The Clergy -- De-ideologization of Religion -- Religious Democratic State -- An Appraisal -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.

This volume focuses primarily on the question of the compatability of Islam and democracy. It highlights the contribution of seven prominent pre- and post-revolutionary Iranian religious thinkers on the subject.

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