Do muslims vote islamic?

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 50-63

  Kurzman, Charles ^a   Naqvi, Ijlal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 77952057579     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: 10863214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.0.0163     Document Type: Article

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2. The largest of these conferences may have been the Seventeenth International Congress of the Union of Muslim Communities. Held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 29 and 30 May 2008, it included representatives from Islamic parties in 14 countries.
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