Editing Political aspects of Islam (section)

==Further reading==
On democracy in the Middle East, the role of Islamist political parties, and the War on Terrorism:

* Ayoob, Mohammed. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120229173859/http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=189346 The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World]''. [[University of Michigan Press]], 2007.
* Blecher, Robert [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202300/http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/blecher_interv.html "Free People Will Set the Course of History: Intellectuals, Democracy and American Empire"], ''Middle East Report'' (March 2003).
* Remarks by the President at the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy, [[United States Chamber of Commerce]], Washington, D.C., [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194937/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031106-2.html "President Bush Discusses Freedom in Iraq and Middle East"], 6 November 2003.
* Fisk, Robert [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230958/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9888.htm "What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? Whatever the West Decides"], ''[[The Independent]]'', 8 August 2005.
* Gambill, Gary [https://web.archive.org/web/20090719232036/http://www.meib.org/articles/0407_me2.htm "Jumpstarting Arab Reform: The Bush Administration's Greater Middle East Initiative"], ''Middle East Intelligence Bulletin'' (Vol. 6, No. 6–7, June/July 2004).
* Gergez, Fawaz [https://web.archive.org/web/20050530111219/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5622 "Is Democracy in the Middle East a Pipedream?"], ''Yale Global Online'', April 25, 2005.
* Hayajneh, Adnan M. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120721224653/http://www.alternativesjournal.net/volume3/number2/adnan.htm "The U.S. Strategy: Democracy and Internal Stability in the Arab World"], ''Alternatives'' (Volume 3, No. 2 & 3, Summer/Fall 2004).
* Marina Ottoway, et al., [https://web.archive.org/web/20061130094537/http://www.ceip.org/files/publications/HTMLBriefs-WP/20_October_2002_Policy_Brief/20009536v01.html "Democratic Mirage in the Middle East"], Carnegie Endowment for Ethics and International Peace, Policy Brief 20 (October 20, 2002).
* Marina Ottoway and Thomas Carothers, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090113090226/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2705&print=1 "Think Again: Middle East Democracy"], ''Foreign Policy'' (Nov./Dec. 2004).
* [[Masood Ashraf Raja|Raja, Masood Ashraf]]. "Muslim Modernity: Poetics, Politics, and Metaphysics". Gabriele Marranci, ed. ''Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach''. Aberdeen: Springer, 2010: 99–112.
* Wright, Steven (2007). ''The United States and Persian Gulf Security: The Foundations of the War on Terror''. Ithaca Press. {{ISBN|978-0-86372-321-6}}.