Islam and Liberal Democracy: Two Visions of Reformation

Issue Date April 1996
Volume 7
Issue 2
Page Numbers 64-75
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About the Author

Robin Wright is global-affairs correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and former Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times of London. Her books include Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam (1985) and In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade (1990).

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