Al-Jamiah: Journal of Islamic Studies invites abstracts by November 10 for its international conference “Islam and Democracy in Comparative Perspectives,” 26-27 November 2011.
The conference is aimed at shedding new light on the current democratisation in the Middle East in comparison to that happened in the 1998 Indonesia, down to what is happening after a more than a decade in Indonesia. Another issue that the conference would address is the significant roles of civil society and religious elites in the democratisation process.