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Contemporary mass media descriptions of Muslims often suggest that Islam and Muslims are fundamentally undemocratic. Policy-makers in the West have weaponized these descriptions in attempts to legitimize anti-Muslim right-wing policy developments across the West and in the United States in particular, from surveillance in the aftermath of 9/11 to the anti-Islamic travel ban of 2017. But¬†are¬†Muslims undemocratic? Ahmed Khanani argues that this is not the case. In¬†All Politics are God’s Politics,¬†Khanani shows that in fact, the opposite holds true: for socially conservative, politically active Muslims (Islamists), democracy or¬†dimuqrƒÅ·π≠iyya¬†reflects¬†and extends their religious values. By drawing on conversations with over 100 Islamists in Morocco, this book enables readers to understand and appreciate the significance of¬†dimuqrƒÅ·π≠iyya¬†as a concept alongside new prospects for Islam and democracy in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Khanani’s in-depth analysis of the Moroccan case brings these Islamists and their attending political views to the forefront. ¬†