Includes bibliographical references and index.

A record of failure / Mohamed Talbi -- Illusions of change / Emmanuel Sivan -- The awakening of civil society / Laith Kubba -- The trap of liberalized autocracy / Daniel Brumberg -- The decline of pluralism in Mubarak's Egypt / Jason Brownlee -- Algeria's uneasy peace / William B. Quandt -- Depoliticization in Morocco / Abdeslam M. Maghraoui -- Stirrings in Saudi Arabia / Jean-François Seznec -- Emirs and parliaments in the Gulf / Michael Herb -- Yemen's aborted opening / Jillian Schwedler -- Deliberalization in Jordan / Russell E. Lucas -- Iran's remarkable election / Shaul Bakhash -- Is Iran democratizing? observations on election day / Haleh Esfandiari -- Is Iran democratizing? reform at an impasse / Ladan Boroumand and Roya Boroumand -- Is Iran democratizing? a comparativist's perspective / Daniel Brumberg -- The deadlock in Iran : pressures from below / Ramin Jahanbegloo -- The deadlock in Iran : constitutional constraints / Mehrangiz Kar -- Turkey at the polls : after the tsunami / Soli Özel -- Turkey at the polls : a new path emerges / Ziya Öniş and E. Fuat Keyman -- Muslims and democracy / Abdou Filali-Ansary -- A historical overview / Bernard Lewis -- Two visions of reformation / Robin Wright -- The challenge of secularization / Abdou Filali-Ansary -- The sources of enlightened Muslim thought / Abdou Filali-Ansary -- The elusive reformation / Abdelwahab El-Affendi -- The silenced majority / Radwan A. Masmoudi -- Faith and modernity / Laith Kubba -- Islamists and the politics of consensus / Daniel Brumberg -- An exit from Arab autocracy / Vickie Langohr -- Terror, Islam, and democracy / Ladan Boroumand and Roya Boroumand.