Islam and human rights in practice :

Islam and human rights in practice : perspectives across the ummah / edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh and Benjamin MacQueen. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. - x, 176 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 14 . - Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 14. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-166) and index.

Framing the debate on Islam and human rights / Shahram Akbarzadeh and Benjamin MacQueen -- The reformulation of Islamic thought on gender rights and roles / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Women's rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : the contribution of secular-oriented feminism / Rebecca Barlow -- Islamic reformism and human rights in Iraq : gender equality and religious freedom / Benjamin MacQueen and Shahram Akbarzadeh -- The reluctant partnership between the Muslim brotherhood and human rights NGOs in Egypt / Benjamin MacQueen -- Human rights in Afghanistan / William Maley -- Competing domains of control : Islam and human rights in Malaysia / Shamsul Amri Bin Baharuddin -- Muslims in Malaysia : notions of human rights reform, and their contexts / Patricia Martinez -- Indonesian Islamist perspectives on human rights / Greg Fealy.

This title looks at human rights and Islam through the perspective of reformists attempting to reconcile Western values with those of Muslim societies. It contains case studies from throughout the Islamic world.

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Human rights--Islamic countries.
Human rights--Religious aspects--Islam.
Menschenrecht
Islam

BP173.44 / .I856 2008

297.2/72

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