have been noted in Iran ... the financial system has barely been Islamized; Christians, for example, are not subject to a poll tax and pay according to the common scheme. Insurance is maintained (even though chance, the very basis for insurance should theoretically be excluded from all contracts). The contracts signed with foreigners all accept the matter of interest. Indices of democracy in Muslim countries There are several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain indices of democracy in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries as being free, partly free, or unfree using various measures of freedom, including political rights, economic rights, freedom of the press and civil liberties. The following lists Muslim-majority countries and shows the scores given by two frequently used indices: Freedom in the World (2018) by the US-based Freedom House and the 2019 Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit. These indices are frequently used in Western media, but have attracted some criticism and may not reflect recent changes. Key: * – Electoral democracies ‡ – Disputed territory (according to Freedom House) Islamic democratic parties and organizations This is a list of parties and organizations which aim for the implementation of Sharia or an Islamic State, or subscribe to Muslim identity politics, or in some other way fulfil the definitions of political Islam, activist Islam, or Islamism laid out in this article; or have been widely described as such by others. See also Institute on Religion and Democracy Dialogue Among Civilizations The Clash of Civilizations Freedom deficit Islamic ethics Islamic revival Islamism Islam Yes, Islamic Party No References Bibliography Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri (eds.) 2002 Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush, Oxford University Press Omid Safi (ed.) 2003 Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism, Oneworld Azzam S. Tamimi 2001 Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism, Oxford University Press Khan L. Ali 2003 A Theory of Universal Democracy, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers Khatab, Sayed & G. Bouma, Democracy in Islam, Routledge 2007 External links Liberal Democracy and Political Islam: The Search for Common Ground Islam and Democracy: Perceptions and Misperceptions by Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq Democracy and the Muslim World Islamic Democracies (article) Preview of the Seoul Conference on The Community of Democracies: Challenges and Threats to Democracy Marina Ottoway, et al., Democratic Mirage in the Middle East Carnegie Endowment for Ethics and International