“As Arab populations ‘pursue values like freedom, justice, equality, autonomy and pluralism, and new models of democracy and of international relations,’ the scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote in The New York Times this week, ‘they need to draw on Islamic traditions.’ But what would that look like? Does Islam encourage or discourage democratic government?”

Follow the debate among Ed Husain, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations; Robert D. Kaplan, chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm; Reza Aslan, an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside; Jerusha Tanner Lamptey, an assistant professor of Islam and ministry at Union Theological Seminary; Richard W. Bulliet, a professor of history at Columbia University, and Omid Safi, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

It’s here.