An-Na'im Muslims and Global Justice

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8122-0433-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Encompassing more than two decades of An-Na'im's work on critical issues, Muslims and Global Justice offers a much-needed theoretical approach to the challenge of realizing global justice in a world of profound religious and cultural difference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

An-Na'im, Abdullahi Ahmed

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Reimagining Global Justice

Part I. The Challenge of Universality and Cultural/Religious Legitimacy
Chapter 1. Islamic Ambivalence to Political Violence: Islamic Law and International Terrorism
Chapter 2. Problems of Universal Cultural Legitimacy for Human Rights
Chapter 3. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights: The Meaning of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Part II. Prospects of Mediation for the Paradox of Universality and State Self-Regulation
Chapter 4. State Responsibility Under International Human Rights Law to Change Religious and Customary Laws
Chapter 5. Islamic Foundations of Religious Human Rights
Chapter 6. Cultural Transformation and Normative Consensus on the Best Interest of the Child
Chapter 7. Toward an Islamic Hermeneutics for Human Rights

Part III. Regional and Global Perspectives
Chapter 8. Competing Claims to Religious Freedom and Communal Self-Determination in Africa
Chapter 9. Globalization and Jurisprudence: An Islamic Perspective
Chapter 10. The Politics of Religion and the Morality of Globalization
Chapter 11. Global Citizenship and Human Rights: From Muslims in Europe to European Muslims

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. He is the author of African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam, and editor of Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.