Muslims and global justice / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʻim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, 1946-

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Religious aspects--Islam.

Globalization.

Law and globalization.

Human rights--Religious aspects--Islam.

Human rights.

Civil rights (Islamic law).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 374 pages)

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Over the course of his distinguished career, legal scholar Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im has sought to reconcile his identity as a Muslim with his commitment to universal human rights. In Muslims and Global Justice , he advances the theme of global justice from an Islamic perspective, critically examining the role that Muslims must play in the development of a pragmatic, rights-based framework for justice. An-Na'im opens this collection of essays with a chapter on Islamic ambivalence toward political violence, showing how Muslims began grappling with this problem long before the 9/11 attacks. Other essays highlight the need to improve the cultural legitimacy of human rights in the Muslim world. As An-Na'im argues, in order for a commitment to human rights to become truly universal, we must learn to accommodate a range of different reasons for belief in those rights. In addition, the author contends, building an effective human rights framework for global justice requires that we move toward a people-centered approach to rights. Such an approach would value foremost empowering local actors as a way of negotiating the paradox of a human rights system that relies on self-regulation by the state. Encompassing over two decades of An-Na'im's work on these critical issues, Muslims and Global Justice provides a valuable theoretical approach to the challenge of realizing global justice in a world of profound religious and cultural difference.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-367) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812204339

0812204336

OCLC:

794925513

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