Does Democracy Need Religion?

Issue Date January 2000
Volume 11
Issue 1
Page Numbers 87-94
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About the Author

Hillel Fradkin is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of its Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World. He is also the founder and coeditor of the Hudson Institute’s periodical review Current Trends in Islamist Ideology.

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Volume 7, Issue 2

Islam and Liberal Democracy: Recognizing Pluralism

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Volume 13, Issue 4

Democratization in the Arab World?: Emirs and Parliaments in the Gulf

How well-founded are Western concerns that the nascent parliaments of Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain will be captured by antidemocratic Islamists and lead to the ‘Talibanization’ of the Gulf?

Volume 14, Issue 2

What Is Liberal Islam?: The Elusive Reformation

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