Islam, Democracy and the State in Algeria: Lessons for the Western Mediterranean and Beyond 1317984161, 9781317984160

Modern Algeria has been, in many ways, a harbinger of events and trends that have affected the Arab and Muslim worlds. T

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Islam, Democracy and the State in Algeria: Lessons for the Western Mediterranean and Beyond
1317984161, 9781317984160

In recent years, Sufism has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to forms of Islam associated with violence

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Belying assertions of the incompatibility of Islam and democracy, many Muslim-majority countries are now or have been de

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