Abstract
Abstract This chapter provides a brief conceptual description of ‘democracy’ as a political system (as it is understood and described by the political theorists) so that to delineate on the persisting and prevailing features of democracy. This is followed by contextualizing the necessary framework for finding out the similarities and differences between the two systems under consideration—namely Islam (Islamic political system) and democracy—and thus is followed by a discussion on ‘defining’ democracy in the Islamic context for which it is important to answer Whose Islam? and What Islam? That is, to deliberate on the varied interpretations of contemporary Islam and to highlight the ‘Reformist/Modernist interpretation of Islam’, which helps in understanding and contextualizing the ‘Process of Democratization and the Islamic Heritage’.
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