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" Institutions not Intentions: Rethinking Islamist participation in Muslim democracies "
Tabinda M. Khan
Nathan, Andrew
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803380
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TL48164
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1667771147; 3687249
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Fong, Erin G.
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Institutions not Intentions: Rethinking Islamist participation in Muslim democracies\ Tabinda M. KhanNathan, Andrew
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Columbia University
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2015
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Ph.D.
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Political Science
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2015
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523
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-64761-7
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This dissertation uses the case of Pakistan to argue that the compatibility of shari'a and democracy depends on the design of institutions through which Islamist moral arguments are processed and which shape their interaction with liberal detractors. Instead of extrapolating Islamist intentions from theoretical tracts deemed canonical or from their official statements, this dissertation examines the link between ideas and institutions by mining a wide-range of English and Urdu-language texts from Pakistani courts, parliament, law journals, the advisory Council of Islamic Ideology and Women's Status Commissions, transnational rights advocacy NGO and Islamist publications, newspapers and TV debates, and 40-years of articles on democracy and state Islamic lawmaking from two leading madrassa journals. An analysis of 3 case studies of Islamic lawmaking reveals that the judiciary has been able to foster 'authentic deliberation' between liberals and Islamists (which Guttman and Thompson define as reciprocal reasoning with civility and respect), leading to the moral accommodation of Islamists in the constitutional democratic order as well as steady advances in constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental rights. However, deliberation through political institutions – a legislature dominated by the executive branch, which has been alternately controlled by military dictators and civilian heads of internally undemocratic political parties – has led groups in power to pass desired laws without giving the minority side reasons internal to their moral framework, leading the losing side to declare the law 'un-Islamic' and to later collaborate with military rulers to attain their desired change.
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Public administration
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Social sciences;Deliberation;Democracy;Institutional design;Islamists;Liberalism;Shari'a
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Nathan, Andrew
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Political ScienceColumbia University
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