Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights

Zusatztext This is a courageous work informed by a sense of urgency and passion. Informationen zum Autor Francis Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia Klappentext 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. In this book Aziz Sachedina argues for the essential compatibility of Islam and human rights. He 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 Islamichistory and thought. Zusammenfassung 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 andtherefore 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sachedina, Abdulaziz Sachedina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9780195388428
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538842-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 243 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Islam / Rituals & Practice, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Theology, Islamic Studies, Religion & politics, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Islamic Theology, Religion and Politics, Human rights, civil rights, Islamic Life & Practice, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Religious & theocratic ideologies, Islamic life and practice, Social groups: religious groups and communities