1. Contesting Democracy: Discourses and Counter-discourses
1
(50)
The democratic problematique: absence not presence
3
(3)
Focus and purpose
6
(4)
The democratic debate
10
(8)
Discursive context
18
(17)
Words and Worlds
35
(11)
About this book
46
(5)
2. Defoundationalising Democracy and the Arabo-Islamic Setting
51
(44)
Foundationalism
53
(10)
The ethos of democracy and contestation in the Arabo-Islamic setting
63
(32)
3. Democracy as an Occidentalist Discourse
95
(45)
Definitions and concepts
96
(5)
Rediscovering the West: From a1 Afghani to al-Tahtawi
101
(9)
Islamist counter-discourses and the politics of identity
110
(21)
Imaginings of the "West" and "Democracy" in Islamist discourses
131
(9)
4. Democracy as an Orientalist Discourse
140
(58)
Background
141
(8)
Orientalism in modernist discourses
149
(27)
Said and istishraq
176
(22)
5. Contemporary Arab Conceptions of Democracy
198
(55)
Democracy and freedom: a background
199
(9)
Al-Farabi's virtuous city
208
(10)
Nahdawiyyun: islah without dimuqratiyyah
218
(11)
Dimugratiyyah, hurriyah: a contemporary kaleidoscope
229
(24)
6. Arab Women and Democracy: Breaking Out
253
(67)
Theoretical background
256
(14)
"Male feminism"
270
(3)
Arab women's conceptions of democracy
273
(18)
Feminisation, Islamisation and democratisation
291
(16)
Women and politics in the AME
307
(13)
7. The West and the Sponsoring of Arab Authoritarianism: Islamist Narratives
320
(54)
Islamists against Eurocentncism and Orientalism
322
(10)
Foreign powers in the AME and democracy
332
(32)
Exporting democracy: The Islamist dimension
364
(10)
8. Discoursing Islam and Democracy: Tests and Contests, Texts and Contexts
374
(36)
From test to contest
376
(7)
From text to context
383
(27)
Bibliography
410
(25)
Index
435
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