Democracy, Islam and Politics In Modern Albania

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Many academics have discussed the relations between political Islam and liberal democracy. Their main question was/is ‘is it possible to find a kind of compatibility between Western regimes’ characteristics and Islam?’ According to this paper, this question’s answer is affirmative in term of Albanian society concerned. This paper is a case study and tries to achieve three purposes that functioned also as guidelines throughout the entire study including the quest about the compatibility between Islam (most of all in its political aspects) and democracy through the study of the Albanian case; and analysing those historical and political happenings that affected the current situation of the country and in addition to investigate the perceptions that the Albanian youth has about the issue in order to describe the present and also to make some suggestions/previsions about the future. In other words this study describes how Islam is perceived by Albanian society within the political life enriching in this way the portrait of the development of the relations between Islam and politics in the country during the last ten years. The paper provides various tables and data in order to prove its stands and explains how Albanian thought on ascribed issues. The paper concludes that the secret of Albania is that this nation enjoys its role of miscellaneous of two cultures since they know the importance and the value of both; therefore, thus Islam and Liberal democracy naturally coexist and the Albanian Islam differs from many other

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MODERN ARNAVUTLUK'TA DEMOKRASİ, İSLAM VE SİYASET

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Siyasal İslam ile liberal demokrasi arasındaki ilişki birçok akademisyen tarafından tartışılmaktadır. Bunların temel sorusu: ‘İslam ile Batı rejimlerinin karekteristikleri arasında bir uyum bulunabilir/ bulmak mümkün mü/ mi? dir.’ Bu çalışmaya göre bu sorunun cevabı özellikle Arnavutluk toplumu gözönüne alındığında olumlu görünür. Bu makale bir örneklem çalışmasıdır ve üç amaca ulaşmaya çalışmaktadır ki, bunlar aynı zamanda bu çalışmanın da çerçevesini oluşturmaktadır. Birinci amaç, Arnavutluk örneğinde demokrasi ve İslam (siyasal kısmı) uyumlu mudur?; mevcut siyasal gelişmeleri tetikleyen siyasal ve tarihi gelişmelere analiz etmek ise ikinci amacı oluşturmaktadır. En son amaç ise Arnavut gençlerinin algılarından yola çıkarak onların mevcut ve gelecek durum hakkında ne düşündüklerini öğrenmek amacı ise araştırmaya ek olarak konulmuştur. Başka bir ifadeyle, bu çalışma İslamın Arnavutluk’ta nasıl algılandığını açıklarken, aynı zamanda son on yılda İslam ve siyasetin ne tür bir gelişmeyi ortaya çıkardığını ve siyasal hayatı ne derece zenginleştirdiğini de ortaya koymaya çalışmaktadır. Makale söz konusu ortaya konulan iddiaları bir çok tablo verilerle desteklemektedir ki, bu tablolar vasıtasıyla da Arnavutların yukarıda açıklanan konularda ne düşündüklerini de ortaya koymaktadır. Arnavutların iki kültürün farklı tezahürlerinin kendilerine yükledikleri rollerden memnun oldukların ortaya koyan bir ulus olduğu sonucuna varıyor ki, bunlar hem önemli hem de çok kıymetli değerler olmaktadır. Sonuçta her ne kadar siyasetin dışında Arnavutluk İslamı farklılık gösterse de İslam ve Liberal demokrasi doğal olarak Arnavutlukta içiçe girmiş ve uyumlu olarak yaşanmaktadır

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• Siyasal İslam, Liberal Demokrasi, Arnavutluk, Demokrasi, Din

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