Islam and Democracy in the Maldives: Interrogating Reformist Islam's Role in Politics

By Azim Zahir

This book examines Islam's relationship to democratization in the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives. It explores how and why an electoral democracy based in constitution that has many liberal features but also Islam-based limitations, especially lack of religious freedom, emerged in the country by 2009.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032015535
• ISBN13: 9781032015538
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"