Editing Islam and democracy (section)

===Muhammad Iqbal===
The modern [[Islamic philosophy|Islamic philosopher]], [[Muhammad Iqbal]], viewed the early Islamic Caliphate as being compatible with democracy. He "welcomed the formation of popularly elected [[Legislative Assembly|legislative assemblies]]" in the Muslim world as a "return to the original purity of Islam." He argued that Islam had the "gems of an economic and democratic organization of society", but that this growth was stunted by the monarchist rule of Umayyad Caliphate, which established the Caliphate as a great Islamic empire but led to [[Political aspects of Islam|political Islamic]] ideals being "[[Paganism|repaganized]]" and the early Muslims losing sight of the "most important potentialities of their faith."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bontekoe |first1=Ronald |last2=Stepaniants |first2=Mariėtta Tigranovna |date=1997 |title=Justice and Democracy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |page=253 |isbn=0-8248-1926-8}}</ref>