Tag Archives: Human Rights

The aim of the book has been to make an in-depth study of the Islamic law and the international humanitarian law in a comparative framework with reference to the subject under consideration...

The book “Living Sharia: Law and Practice in Malaysia” provides us with diverse and dynamic conceptions of Shari’a in the wider context of Southeast Asia and beyond Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested …

A new report has been released documenting the harsh treatment of the Shia Muslim clerics in Bahrain since an uprising began in the country in early 2011...

A Bangladesh court on Monday upheld a government ban on marriage between its citizens and refugees from Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority, who have fled ethnic violence in the...

The fourth report in the British Muslim Expectations of Government series has been commissioned to highlight and identify Muslim responses and requirements...

This volume broaches the subject of neutrality and the law with the specific experience and expectations of Muslims in the UK.  Having discussed the various theoretical critiques of law as objective and universal, it proceeds to draw on Muslim voices from across the UK in order to propose the grounds …

Human rights and freedom are inseparable from Islam, a discussion featuring prominent Muslim academic Dr. Nader Hashemi said to the oundtable discussion entitled “Is liberty an Islamic value?” organised by...

This book seeks to present information, not at present available in a single work, on the pioneering efforts of Islamic jurists to develop a comprehensive body of human rights, principles and practice, as well as a corpus of...

A Conference titled “Human Rights, Migration, and Global Governance” will be held jointly by The Academic Council on the United Nations System and the Human Rights sections of the International Studies Association, American Political Science Association, International Political Science Association, and...

If justice prevailed since previous generations in that community, and if justice was established in the human life environment, humans could, in the shadow of justice, create their own environment in such a way that it would be suitable for living; hence, their children would not be miserable and...