Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
In this article the writer, Muhammad Legenhausen, reviews Hocking’s thinking on the foundations of human rights and their relation to the religious traditions of...
Read More »Religion and Human Rights in the Thought of W. E. Hocking
Violations of Women’s Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
Islam’s equality between men and women is indeed guaranteed; there is no doubt about it except in the minds of the ignorant, be they non-Muslims or Muslims whose knowledge of...
Read More »A Critique of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from the Perspective of Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi
In the world of today, beautiful words like “human rights” are used rather frequently and extensively. Yet, these words are spoken most passionately by the corrupt superpowers, leading even some of the...
Read More »End Killing of Shias in Nigeria: Human Rights Watch
Nigerian authorities have failed to ensure justice for the killings of hundreds of members of the Shia Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) since 2015, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a...
Read More »Shari’a and Human Rights, the Challenges Ahead +PDF
There are some people among the non-Muslims and even the Muslims who spread confusion that the concept of human rights is alien to Shari’a (Islamic law) and it has no place in the provisions of the ...
Read More »Slavery from Islam’s Point of View
Slavery has been one of the most unfair practices in human history, something that any good conscience would reject. This is because all human beings are born free and none of them is entitled to enslave others. Although slavery in its most brutal form is no...
Read More »3rd International Conference on Religious Freedom and Human Rights Opens in Jordan
HRH Prince Hassan, chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies (RIIFS), on Sunday opened the third international conference on religious freedom and...
Read More »United Nation Urges Action on Rohingya Muslim Refugees
The United Nation's assistant secretary general for humanitarian affairs urged the international community to pay attention to the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population, the majority of whom are....
Read More »Book: Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism
This book is a theoretically challenging re-evaluation of cosmopolitan arguments through a rigorous discussion of rights-making claims by Europe's Muslims to the...
Read More »Draft Teaching Manual: Islamic Law and Human Rights +PDF
The main aim of this module is to introduce student s to comparative perspectives on Islamic law and Human Rights drawing upon English language scholarship in the field. It is intended to provide an understanding of sources of the Islamic...
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