Islam and human rights : tradition and politics
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Islam and human rights : tradition and politics
Westview Press , Pinter Publishers, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Does the philosophy and practice of Islam stand in the way of realizing human rights? Ann Mayer argues that there is much in the evolving Islamic tradition that is favourable to the accommodation of human rights principles, but that various Muslim groups who are threatened by the demand for democratic freedoms have created obstacles to the exercise of human rights that purport to rest on Islamic principles, examining how they compare to international human rights norms.
Table of Contents
- The focus of this study
- the historical background of conflicts between Islamic and international versions of rights
- the use of Islamic criteria to restrict human rights
- special issues of discrimination against women and non-Muslims in Islamic human rights schemes
- restrictions on the rights and freedoms of women in Islamic human rights schemes
- Islamic human rights schemes and non-Muslims
- freedom of religion in Islamic human rights schemes
- an assessment of Islamic human rights schemes.
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