By Benjamin Glahn,Anver M. Emon,Mark Ellis

ISBN-10: 0199641447

ISBN-13: 9780199641444

ISBN-10: 0199641455

ISBN-13: 9780199641451

the connection among Islamic legislation and foreign human rights legislation has been the topic of substantial, and heated, debate in recent times. the standard place to begin has been to check one process via the factors of the opposite, asking is Islamic legislation 'compatible' with foreign human rights criteria, or vice versa. This strategy fast results in acrimony and accusations of bewilderment. via protecting one set of norms on one other we omit the deeply
contextual nature of the way criminal ideas function in a society, and significant comparability and dialogue is impossible.

In this quantity, prime specialists in Islamic legislation and overseas human rights legislations try to deepen the knowledge of human rights and Islam, paving the best way for a extra significant debate. targeting imperative parts of controversy, comparable to freedom of speech and faith, gender equality, and minority rights, the authors research the contextual nature of ways Islamic legislation and overseas human rights legislations are legitimately shaped, interpreted, and utilized inside of a neighborhood. They learn how these
fundamental pursuits are well-known and guarded in the legislation, and what regulations are put on the freedoms linked to them.

By studying how each one approach acknowledges and boundaries primary freedoms, this quantity clears the floor for exploring the connection among Islamic legislations and foreign human rights legislations on a sounder footing. In doing so it bargains a hard and designated contribution to the literature at the topic, and may be a useful reference for college kids, lecturers, and policy-makers engaged within the felony and non secular debates surrounding Islam and the West.

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