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Democracy in Islam: The Views of Several Modern Muslim Scholars Tauseef Ahmad Parray Abstract From the early twentieth century onward, many Muslim thinkers have explored the prospects for establishing an “Islamic democ- racy” by defining, discussing, and debating the relationship and compatibility (and similarity) between “Islamic political con- cepts” and the “notions and positive features of democracy.
In the following pages, I present the arguments, viewpoints, and opinions of several influential Muslim thinkers in order to unfold the issue of democratization and its compatibility and consistency with Islam’s key political concepts of khilafah (vicegerency) and shura (consultation).
These principles (and many others) are inherent in an Islamic political order, as Khurshid Ahmad argues: The Islamic political order is based on the concept of Tawhid and seeks its flowering in the form of popular vicegerency (Khilafah) operating through a mechanism of Shura, supported by the principals of equality and human- kind, rule of law, protection of human rights including those of minorities, accountability of the rulers, transparency of political processes and an overriding concern for justice in all its dimensions: legal, political, social, economic and international.
”9 Describing the real significance of khilafah in his Islamic Way of Life, he argues that the caliphate’s authority is bestowed on the people, the com- munity as a whole, which is ready to fulfill the conditions of representation after subscribing to the principles of tawhid (God’s unity) and risalah (mes- sengership): “This is the point where democracy begins in ...