| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 158 pages) |
| Series |
Advancing human rights |
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Advancing human rights series.
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| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Defining Dialogue; 1 Conversations about Human Rights and Islam; 2 Maududi, Qutb, and Soroush: Humanity and History; 3 Envisioning Islamic Democracies; 4 The Free Conscience: "No Compulsion in Religion"; 5 Toleration ... and Its Limits; Conclusion: Advancing Human Rights Dialogue; Notes; Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Promoting Islam as a defender of human rights is laden with difficulties. Advocates of human rights will readily point out numerous humanitarian failures carried out in the name of Islam. In The Rights of God, Irene Oh looks at human rights and Islam as a religious issue rather than a political or legal one and draws on three revered Islamic scholars to offer a broad range of perspectives that challenge our assumptions about the role of religion in human rights. The theoretical shift from the conception of morality based in natural duty and law to one of rights has created tensions that hinder |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-150) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Islam and civil society.
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Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Islam and humanism.
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RELIGION -- Islam -- Theology.
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Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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Islam and civil society
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Islam and humanism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007007016 |
| ISBN |
9781435627567 |
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1435627563 |
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9781589014633 |
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1589014634 |
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