A book chapter titled “İslam ve Demokrasi” (Islam and Democracy) authored by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat TÜMAY of the Constitutional Law Department of Law Faculty of our university was published in the book “Dijital Çağda İslam Dünyası Politika, Güvenlik, Hukuk, Ekonomi; İslam ve Demokrasi” (Islamic World in the Digital Age; Politics, Security, Law, Economy; Islam and Democracy).
At the beginning of his study, TÜMAY explains that the claim that Islamic values are incompatible with and contradictory to democratic institutions and human rights values stems from a lack of sufficient knowledge and awareness about the original Islamic sources and continues with a general and basic examination of the original sources to refute these claims.
In conclusion, he argues that as Islam has been presented as an ideology rather than a religion, ideologically violent movements were attributed to the religion of Islam even though they had nothing to do with it. Accordingly, he concluded that the religion of Islam is in harmony with human rights and democratic values and underlined that western liberal democracies and the Islamic world should cooperate in order to understand each other.