Book: Human Rights and Islam by Abdullah Saeed

The book “Human Rights and Islam: An Introduction to Key Debates Between Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law” shows the resources that exist within Islamic tradition in support of human rights.

Is there a basis for human rights in Islam? Beginning with an exploration of what rights are and how the human rights discourse developed, Abdullah Saeed explores the resources that exist within Islamic tradition in support of human rights. He identifies those that are compatible with international human rights law and can be garnered to promote and protect human rights in Muslim-majority states.

Relying on significant texts in the Qur’an and hadith, early juristic discourses and modern Islamic scholarship, Saeed explains the compatibilities and incompatibilities between Islamic law and international human rights law. He also deals separately with a number of specific rights that are usually considered somewhat incompatible with Islamic law, such as the rights of women and children, freedom of expression and religion and jihad and the laws of war. Each chapter also contains a case to allow readers to look more closely at issues of relevance.

Human Rights and Islam emphasises the need for Muslims to rethink problematic areas of Islamic thought that are difficult to reconcile with contemporary conceptions of human rights. Students of Islamic law, human rights and Islam in the modern period will appreciate this challenging but accessible look at an important topic.

About the Author

Abdullah Saeed, Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne & Advisor to SRP program, Nanyang Technological University, Australia

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Human rights and Islamic legal sources
2. Development of human rights and some basic conceptions
3. Islamic human rights instruments
4. Human rights and the idea of clash of civilizations
5. Islam and the state
6. Religion the state and human rights
7. Islam human rights and women
8. The rights of the child
9. Freedom of expression
10. Islam and religious freedom
11. Human rights and war
Conclusion

Bibliographic Information

Title: Human Rights and Islam: An Introduction to Key Debates Between Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law

Authors: Abdullah Saeed

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publication

 Language: English

Length: 288

ISBN: 978-1 78471-657-8

Pub. Date: April 27, 2018

Click Here to Read the Book Online