Alcune riflessioni sul rapporto tra Islam e democrazia
Keywords:
politica internazionale, Islam, democrazia
Abstract
This paper aims to identify points of encounter and friction between Islamic political culture and the principles of Western democracies, in order to evaluate possible developments in the relationship between the Western and Arab-Islamic world. The study is based above all on a careful analysis of the political vision of Islam, as it can be inferred from its sacred texts, also taking into consideration the problem of the often incorrect interpretation of such texts, easily distorted for political purposes that have nothing to do with the religious and spiritual dimension of Islam. From the study emerges, in any case, the substantial difference between the political perspective of the West and that of the Arab world when, giving up any secular vision, it becomes conditioned by its religious dimension.
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Bausani, Alessandro (1987). L’Islam, Garzanti.
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Cassandra (pseudo) (1995). The Impending Crisis in Egypt, in The Middle East Journal, v.49, n.1, pp. 9-27.
Conversi, Daniele (1995). Reassessing Current Theories on Nationalism: Nationalism as Boundaries Maintenance and Creation, in Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, vol. 1, n. 1, pp. 73-85.
Diamond, Lerry, Seymour Martin Lipset e Juan J. Linz (a cura di) (1995). Politics in Developing Countries. Comparing Experiences with Democracy, Boulder, Lynne Rienner.
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Fiedler, Heinz (1997). Die Islamistische Herausforderung, in Aussenpolitik, n.1, pp. 79-90.
Filali-Ansary, Abdou (1999). Muslim and Democracy, in Journal of Democracy, luglio, vol. 10, n. 3, pp. 18-32.
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Gilbraith, Martin (1996). Civil Society, the Promise and Peril of Democratisation and Prospects for the Arab World, in Civil Society, vol. 5, n.58.
Giunchi, Elisa (1994). The Political Thought of Abul A’lā Mawdūdī, in Il Politico.
Guolo, Renzo (2002). Il fondamentalismo islamico, Laterza.
Hourani, Albert (1992). A History of the Arab Peoples (1991); trad. it. Storia dei popoli arabi. Da Maometto ai nostri giorni, Milano, Mondadori.
Hourani, Albert (1994). Islam in European Thought (1991), Cambridge, University Press; trad. it. L’Islam nel pensiero europeo, Roma, Donzelli.
Ibrahim, Saad Eddin (1995). Civil Society and the Prospects of Democratisation in the Arab World, in Civil Society in the Middle East (a cura di A. R. Norton), Leiden, Brill, pp. 27-54.
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Lewis, Bernard (1983). The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982); trad. it. Europa barbara e infedele. I musulmani alla scoperta dell’Europa, Mondadori.
Hurgronje, Christiaan Snouck (1999). Het Mekkaansche feest, Brill (1880); trad. it. Il pellegrinaggio alla Mecca, Einaudi.
Linz, Juan J. e Alfred Stepan (2000). Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe (1996); trad. it. Transizione e consolidamento della democrazia, Il Mulino.
Mabry, Tristan James (1998). Modernization, nationalism and Islam: an examination of Ernest Gellner’s writings on Muslim society with reference to Indonesia and Malaysia, in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 21 Number 1 January.
Morlino, Leonardo (1986). Democrazie, in Gianfranco Pasquino (a cura di), Manuale di scienza della politica, Il Mulino.
Morlino, Leonardo (1998). Democracy Between Consolidation and Crisis. Parties, Groups and Citizens in Southern Europe, Oxford University Press.
Muqtedar Khan (2007). Demokratie und islamische Staatlichkeit, in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte – ApuZ 26-27/2007, pp. 1-7.
Negri, Antonio (1970). Scienze politiche 1 (Stato e Politica), Enciclopedia Feltrinelli Fischer – 27.
Nelli, René (1969). Les katares du Languedoc au XIII siècle, Hachette.
Partner, Peter (1997). God of Battles. Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam; trad. it. Il Dio degli eserciti. Islam e Cristianesimo: le guerre sante, Einaudi.
Peirone, Federico (1979). Il Corano, Milano, Mondadori.
Piscatori, James P. (1986). Islam in a World of Nation-Sates, Cambridge, Royal Institute of International Affairs, University Press.
Piscatori, James P. (a cura di) (1989). Islam in the Political Process, Cambridge, Royal Institute of International Affairs, University Press.
Ragionieri, Rodolfo (1991). Il golfo delle guerre. Islam, nazionalismo e superpotenze, ECP.
Sen, Amartya (1999). Democracy as a Universal Value, in Journal of Democracy, 10.3, pp. 3-17.
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Sen, Amartya (2011). Peace and Democratic Society. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
Sola, Giorgio (1996). Storia della Scienza politica, Nuova Italia Scientifica.
Struhl, Karsten J. (2007). Is Democracy a Universal Value? Whose Democracy?, in Science and Society, January.
Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed (1996). The Second Message of Islam, Syracuse University Press.
Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed (2002). Un Islam à vocation libératrice, l'Harmattan.
Tröndle, Dirk (2007). Das Verhältnis von Islam und Demokratie in der Türkei zwischen Islamisierung der Politik und Politisierung des Islam, in Auslandsinformationen Der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung - KAS-AI 12/07, pp. 66-90.
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Yahya Harun (2002). Giustizia e Tolleranza nel Sublime Corano, www.ildialogo.org/islam/harunyahya3.htm
Zirker, Hans (2017). Gewalt und Gewaltverzicht im Koran. Liste der Belege mit einer Einführung, Universität Duisburg-Essen.
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