Authors: Noah Feldman
ISBN-13: 9780374529338, ISBN-10: 0374529337
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: Reprint
Noah Feldman, born in 1970, teaches law at New York University. He was senior adviser for constitutional law for the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in the months after the U.S. war in Iraq.
A brave and timely examination of America's great dilemma in the Muslim world
Published just as the United States went to war in Iraq, After Jihad put Noah Feldman "into the center of an unruly brawl now raging in policy circles over what to do with the Arab world" (The New York Times Book Review).
A year later, the questions Feldman raises-and answers-are at the center of every serious discussion about America's role in the world. How can Islam and democracy be reconciled? How can the United States sponsor emerging Islamic democrats without appeasing radicals and terrorists? Can we responsibly remain allies with stable but repressive Arab regimes, chaotic emerging democracies, and Israel as well?
After Jihad made Feldman, in a stroke, the leading Western authority on emerging Islamic democracyand the most prominent adviser to the Iraqis drafting a constitution for their newly freed nation. This paperback editionwhich includes a new preface taking account of recent eventsis the best single book on the nature of Islam today and on the forms Islam is likely to take in the coming years.
Preface to the Paperback Edition | xi | |
The Revolution That Wasn't | 3 | |
Islam and Democracy in Contact | 6 | |
Part 1 | The Idea of Islamic Democracy | |
Islamic Democracy, Not Islamist Democracy | 19 | |
Islam, the West, and the Question of Opposition | 26 | |
Islam and Democracy as Mobile Ideas | 31 | |
The Resilience of Islam | 38 | |
God's Rule and the People's Rule | 51 | |
Islamic Equality | 62 | |
Islamic Liberty | 69 | |
The Universality of Mobile Ideas | 75 | |
Part 2 | Varieties of Islamic Democracy | |
Democratization and Muslim Reality: An Overview | 81 | |
Iran: Islamic Democracy in the Balance | 87 | |
Turkey: The Outlier | 101 | |
Islam and Democracy in South and Southeast Asia: Mobility and Possibility | 113 | |
Pakistan: The Islamic State and the Struggle for Stability | 119 | |
The Diversity of the Arabs | 131 | |
Monarchies with Oil: The Rentier State in Action | 137 | |
Kings Without Oil | 148 | |
The Dictators and the Islamists: The Puzzle of Egypt | 162 | |
Regime Change and Its Consequences: Dictators with Oil | 174 | |
The Big Picture: Islam, Democracy, and the Contact of Mobile Ideas | 182 | |
Part 3 | The Necessity of Islamic Democracy | |
Why Democracy? The Pragmatic Argument | 189 | |
Neutralizing Anti-Americanism by Refuting It | 199 | |
Doing the Right Thing | 204 | |
How to Do It | 210 | |
Democracy's Muslim Allies | 222 | |
Imagining an Islamic Democracy | 228 | |
After Jihad | 232 | |
Notes | 235 | |
Acknowledgments | 253 | |
Index | 255 |