Democracy and Islamic Rule.

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rule. The results of their efforts are putting value on "the vote of the majority" under the Islamic rule; they view that it would support and guarantee the basis of Western democracy has sofar had various forms throughout its evolution, and mow has its last form, viz. liberal democracy. Foucault and David Held regard, this last station (i.e.form) as the culmination of democracy as well as the end of human political history. Western democracy has so for chosen three principles ad its foundations which have still effects on the present - day over whelming liberal democracy. The principles are: isolation of religion from sacial behaviour, underlining the philosophy of pragmatism, and individualism. A group of Muslim scholars attempted to seek a compromise between western democracy and the Islamic democracy in the Islamic rule.
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