The experience with Turkey shows the fact that several Muslims, regardless of their habitation in officially secular or officially Islamic countries, witness democracy as their foremost expectation and means of efficient political involvement. Expanding on current research, this doctoral study seeks to examine the whether democracy is compatible in the Islamic world. Research Methodology:

Methodology constitutes an important aspect of any study. Several scholars have followed many techniques of method to collect data, analyze it and come to its conclusions. In the present study which is supposed to be completed within a short span of time will concentrate on primary and secondary sources which are relevant to the study. The correlation between Islam and democracy proposing their incompatibility is made aware through several literatures on the subject. Nevertheless, the bulk of writings on this topic are not persuasive as the authors fall short of giving a theoretical cause for the extrication. The more conclusive study on the topic blends qualitative and quantitative methods.

Tentative Chapters:

1. Introduction

2. Review of Literature

3. Islamic values and its compatibility/incompatibility with democratic Ideals.

4. Does Democracy vary among different Islamic regions of the world?

5. Are the recent 'Democratic Muslim countries' truly democratic?

6. Is the rise of Political Islam a barrier to Democracy?

7. Can the West co-exist with Islamic Democracy?

8. Concluding Chapter

Summary:

The correlation between Islam and democracy in the modern world is intricate. There is lack of ideological immensity in the Muslim world. It offers a wide range of point-of-view varying from the limits of the people who defy a linkage between Islam and democracy to those who debate that Islam needs a democratic system. Within the limits, a number of nations where concentration of Muslim is more, a lot of Muslims consider that Islam is a support for democracy although their specific political system is not unequivocally...

In this complex setting, it is pertinent to appreciate whether Islam is compatible with democracy or otherwise.
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