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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes See Elie Kedourie, Democracy and Arab Political Culture (Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy 1992); W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity (London: Routledge 1988). See John L. Esposito and John O. Voll, Islam and Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press 1996). M. Steven Fish, ‘Islam and Authoritarianism’, World Politics 55/1 (Oct. 2002) pp.4–37. Vickie Langohr, ‘Of Islamists and Ballot Boxes: Rethinking the Relationship Between Islamisms and Electoral Politics’, International Journal of Middle East Studies 33/3 (2001) pp.591–610. See Robert A. Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 1971). Mohammed M. Hafez, Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner 2003) p.xv. Mohammed M. Hafez, Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner 2003) p.xvi. Dale F. Eickelman, ‘Bin Laden, the Arab “Street”, and the Middle East's Democracy Deficit’, Current History (Jan. 2002) pp.36–9. See Michael C. Hudson, ‘Democratisation and the Problem of Legitimacy in Middle East Politics’, MESA Bulletin 22/2 (Dec. 1988) pp.157–71; Hisham Sharabi, Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society (New York: Oxford University Press 1988). United Nations Development Programme, Arab Human Development Report (New York: United Nations 2002). See Nazih N. Ayubi, Over-Stating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East (London: I.B. Tauris 1995); Jill Crystal, ‘Authoritarianism and Its Adversaries in the Arab World’, World Politics 46/2 (Jan. 1994) pp.262–89. See also Clement Henry's contribution to this volume, the ‘bunker state’. Sharabi (note 9). Hudson (note 9). See John P. Entelis, ‘SONATRACH: The Political Economy of an Algerian State Institution’, Middle East Journal 53/1 (Winter 1999) pp.9–27. For Tunisia, see Eva Bellin, Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2002); Eva Bellin, ‘Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor, and Democratisation in Late-Developing Countries’, World Politics 52/2 (Jan. 2000) pp.175–205. For Egypt, see Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Mobilising Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt (New York: Columbia University Press 2002). See John P. Entelis, ‘Political Islam’, MESA Bulletin 30 (1996) pp.165–9; John P. Entelis, ‘Religion and Politics in Algeria: Conflict or Consensus?’, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 12/4 (Oct. 2001) pp.417–34; John P. Entelis, ‘Le Maroc: Un courant populaire mis à l'écart’, Le Monde Diplomatique (Sept. 2002), pp.22–3. Political Islam's multiple ‘faces’ are deftly treated in Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Muslim Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1996); Roxanne L. Euben, Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism – A Work of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1999); Robert W. Hefner, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratisation in Indonesia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2000). See Bruce B. Lawrence, Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1998); Robert D. Lee, Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity (Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1997). See John P. Entelis (ed.), Islam, Democracy, and the State in North Africa (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 1997). Entelis (note 16). See also Azzedine Layachi's contribution to this collection. See Anthony Shadid, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam (Boulder, CO: Westview Press 2002). See Jane Corbin, Al-Qaeda: The Terror Network that Threatens the World (New York: Nations Books 2002). See Caryle Murphy, Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East – The Egyptian Experience (New York: Scribner 2002). Paul L. Williams, Al-Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror (New York: Alpha Books, a Pearson Education Company 2002). See Haldun Gülalp, ‘Globalisation and Political Islam: The Social Bases of Turkey's Welfare Party’, International Journal of Middle East Studies 33/3 (2001) pp.433–48. Eickelman (note 8); AHDR (note 10

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