On Muslim Democracy

Rached Ghannouchi is one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers, who served as speaker of the Tunisian Parliament between 2019 and 2021. He has written dozens of books in Arabic, many of which have been translated into other languages, including Public Freedoms in the Islamic State, which has just been published in English.Andrew F. March is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has also taught political theory and Islamic political thought at Harvard, Yale and NYU. He is the author of The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought and Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus.

• Introduction: "From Islamic Democracy to Muslim Democracy: Rached Ghannouchi in Thought and Action" by Andrew F. MarchEssays on Freedom, Democracy, and Constitutionalism (by Rached Ghannouchi)Chapter 1: Basic Freedoms in IslamChapter 2: The Dialectic of Unity, Difference and Political Pluralism in IslamChapter 3: When Is Islam the Solution?Chapter 4: Freedom FirstChapter 5: Between Sayyid Qutb and Malek Bennabi: Ten PointsChapter 6: Islam and CitizenshipChapter 7: The Problems of Contemporary Islamist DiscourseChapter 8: Secularism and the Relation between Religion and the State from the Perspective of the Ennahda PartyChapter 9: The Implications and Requirements of a Post-Revolutionary ConstitutionChapter 10: Human Rights in IslamPhilosophical-Theological Dialogues on Democracy, Pluralism, and Islam: Rached Ghannouchi and Andrew F. MarchBiography and FormationDemocracy, Sovereignty, and MoralityThe Universal Caliphate, Democracy, and the Meaning of the Shari'aFreedom, Pluralism, and Toleration

...an essential read for all those concerned with Tunisia's future.