Is Islam compatible with democratization in the context of Asian cultures? To address this important issue, a series of books have been published in the English language from 1990s (and especially from 2000s). Most of these books deal with the relationship between Islam, Muslims, and democratization with a sub-region in Asia: South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia. While others deal with the same issue with a focus on the future, very few deal with the relationship between Islam, Muslims, and democratization in the context of Asian cultures from the perspectives of theory and empirical country studies from all three Asian regions. In this backdrop, this essay—by making an assessment and review of the literature, produced in the last decade, on this theme—focuses on the compatibility paradigm in South and South Asian Muslim societies at empirical level, with a focus on Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia. To achieve this objective, four main books—viz. Zoya Hasan (2007); Shiping Hua (2009); Mirjam Künkler & Alfred Stepan (2013); and Esposito, Sonn, & Voll (2016)—with necessary support from other works  as well, are  reviewed and assessed in this essay.