Islam and human rights : tradition and politics

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Islam and human rights : tradition and politics

Ann Elizabeth Mayer

Westview Press, 1999

3rd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-243) and index

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Do Islam and Islamic law constitute real obstacles to human rights? In this revised and updated edition, the author offers critical assessments of recent Islamic human rights schemes that dilute or eliminate the human rights protections afforded by international law and compares these both with the Islamic legal heritage and with international human rights law. Contesting stereotypes about a supposedly monolithic Islam inherently incompatible with human rights, Mayer dissects the political motives behind the selective use of elements of the Islamic tradition by conservative groups opposed to democracy and human rights. The third edition considers recent developments in human rights law and policy. For example, in Egypt, the notorious Abu Zaid casewhere a scholar was declared an apostate and divorced against his willmarked a dramatic setback for human rights in the name of upholding Islamic law. However, some regimes are rethinking their previous attacks on the international human-rights systemIran being an example of a country that has recently been moving in the direction of combating the view that its Islamic ideology necessarily leads to human rights violations. This edition considers these recent events and many others. }Do Islam and Islamic law constitute real obstacles to human rights? In this revised and updated edition, the author offers critical assessments of recent Islamic human rights schemes that dilute or eliminate the human rights protections afforded by international law and compares these both with the Islamic legal heritage and with international human rights law. Contesting stereotypes about a supposedly monolithic Islam inherently incompatible with human rights, Mayer dissects the political motives behind the selective use of elements of the Islamic tradition by conservative groups opposed to democracy and human rights. The third edition considers recent developments in human rights law and policy. For example, in Egypt, the notorious Abu Zaid casewhere a scholar was declared an apostate and divorced against his willmarked a dramatic setback for human rights in the name of upholding Islamic law. However, some regimes are rethinking their previous attacks on the international human rights systemIran being an example of a country that has recently been moving in the direction of combating the view that its Islamic ideology necessarily leads to human rights violations. In addition, the debates on whether Islam stands in the way of human rights continue in the UN, provoked in part by recent Islamic reservations to human rights conventions. This edition considers these recent events and many others. Also new to the third edition: the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam and many excerpts from the Iranian constitution. }

目次

  • Comparisons of Rights Across Cultures
  • International and Islamic Human Rights
  • Islamic Tradition and Muslim Reactions to Human Rights
  • Islamic Restrictions on Human Rights
  • Discrimination Against Women and Non-Muslims
  • Restrictions on the Rights and Freedoms of Women
  • 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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