Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-538842-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Whether Islam is compatible with human rights in general, and with the Declaration of Human Rights in particular, has been both a Muslim issue and a concern of the international community. Muslim rulers, Western analysts and policymakers, and Muslim extremists as well as conservative Muslims, have often agreed for diverse reasons that Islam and human rights cannot co-exist. In this book Aziz Sachedina argues for the essential compatibility of Islam and human rights. He offers a balanced and incisive critique of leading Western experts who ignore or marginalize the relationship of religion to human rights. At the same time, he re-examines the inherited tradition that forms the basis of conservative Muslim objections, arguing that it is culturally conditioned and therefore open to development and change. Finally, and most importantly, Sachedina delineates a fresh contemporary Muslim position that argues for a correspondence between Islam and secular concepts of human rights, grounded in sacred sources as well as Islamic history and thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sachedina, Abdulaziz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1.: CLASH OF UNIVERSALISMS: SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS IN HUMAN RIGHTS

- 2.: THE NATURE OF ISLAMIC ETHICAL-JURIDICAL DISCOURSE

- 3.: NATURAL LAW AND KNOWLEDGE OF ETHICAL NECESSITY

- 4.: THE DIGNITY AND CAPACITIES OF WOMEN AS EQUAL BEARERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

- 5.: INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY: CLAIMS AND ESPONSIBILITIES

- 6.: FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND CONSCIENCE: THE FOUNDATION OF PLURALISTIC WORLD ORDER

- END NOTES

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Über Autor(innen)

Francis Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia