Table of Contents

Part I: Democratization in the Arab World
1. A Record of Failure
2. Illusions of Change
3. The Awakening of Civil Society
4. The Trap of Liberalized Autocracy
5. The Decline of Pluralism in Mubarak's Egypt
6. Algeria's Uneasy Peace
7. Depoliticization in Morocco
8. Stirrings in Saudi Arabia
9. Emirs and Parliaments in the Gulf
10. Yemen's Aborted Opening
11. Deliberalization in Jordan
Part II: Iran and Turkey
12. Iran's Remarkable Election
13. Is Iran Democratizing? Observations on Election Day
14. Is Iran Democratizing? Reform at an Impasse
15. Is Iran Democratizing? A Comparativist's Perspective
16. The Deadlock in Iran: Pressures from Below
17. The Deadlock in Iran: Constitutional Constraints
18. Turkey at the Polls: A Historic Opportunity
19. Turkey at the Polls: A New Path Emerges
Part III: Islam and Democracy
20. Muslims and Democracy
21. A Historical Overview
22. Two Visions of Reformation
23. he Challenge of Secularization
24. The Sources of Enlightened Muslim Thought
25. The Elusive Reformation
26. The Silenced Majority
27. Faith and Modernity
28. Islamists and the Politics of Consensus
29. An Exit from Arab Autocracy
30. Terror, Islam and Democracy

About the Author

Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is codirector, with Marc Plattner, of the International Forum for Democratic Studies. He is also coeditor, with Marc Plattner, of the Journal of Democracy and of other collections of essays available from Johns Hopkins, including The Global Resurgence of Democracy, Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, and The Global Divergence of Democracies.Daniel Brumberg is associate professor of government at Georgetown University.

Reviews

The more authentic Muslim modernists are those who have already taken a step across the historical threshold toward an enlightened skepticism of the whole Islamic tradition. There are many Muslim intellectuals who have done this, some of them contributors to the collection Islam and Democracy in the Middle East.
*New York Review of Books*

A rich lode of empirical examples and sober working hypotheses about democratic prospects.
*Foreign Affairs*

Unlike many other contemporary books on the subject, it tries to distinguish between the issues of politicization of Islam and Islamization of political affairs, differentiating between 'political Islam' and 'liberal Islam.'
*Choice*

A comprehensive assessment of the origins and staying power of Middle East autocracies, as well as a sober account of the struggles of state reformers and opposition forces to promote civil liberties, competitive elections, and a pluralistic vision of Islam.
*Middle East Journal*