Islam and democracy in South Asia: the case of Bangladesh
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acronyms -- List of Tables -- 1 Islam and Democracy in South Asia: An Introduction -- Democracy and Islam: Compatible or Contender? -- Studies on the South Asian Landscape -- The Case of Bangladesh -- Questions, Structure, and Central Arguments -- References -- 2 Framework: Religion, Secularism, and Democracy -- The "Secularization Theory" -- The Decline of Religion Thesis -- "Old Paradigm" and "New Paradigm" -- Modalities of Secularism -- Weberian Sociology of Religion -- Conceptual Threads -- "Polyarchy" by Dahl (1971, 1999) and Post-Dahl Authors -- Hybridity of Democracy -- References -- 3 Data Collection and Analysis -- Triangulation of Methods -- Sampling -- Intensive Interviews -- Recording, Questions, and Interview Techniques -- Transcription -- Focus Group Discussion -- Other Data Collection and Analysis -- Research Obstacles -- References -- 4 Islam and Democracy: A Philosophical Debate -- Divergent Scholarship on Islam and Democracy -- Contemporary Islamic Scholars on Democracy -- Islamic Revivalism Efforts in Eighteenth Century -- The Nineteenth-Century Reformist Movements -- Harmony Between Democracy and Islam -- References -- 5 The Advent of Islam and Growth of Muslim Society in Bengal -- Background -- Islamization Theories in Bengal -- Bengal During the Advent of Islam -- Islam's Entry to Bengal and the Rise of Muslim Society -- The Arab Merchants: Early Contacts with Bengal -- The Muslim Conquest: Beginning of Islamic Consolidation in Bengal -- The Sufis, Saints, and Spiritual Figures: Islam Wins Bengal -- The Coming of Sufis in Pre-Muslim Bengal -- The Coming of Sufis in Bengal During the Early Muslim Period -- References -- 6 Political Islam in Pre-independent Bangladesh: Puritanism, Muslim Nationalism, and Ethno-Nationalism -- Defining Political Islam.
