Muslims and global justice / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, 1946- author.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Religious aspects--Islam.

Globalization.

Law and globalization.

Human rights--Religious aspects--Islam.

Human rights.

Civil rights (Islamic law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 374 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction. Reimagining Global Justice

Part I. The Challenge of Universality and Cultural/Religious Legitimacy

Chapter 1. Islamic Ambivalence to Political Violence: Islamic Law and International Terrorism

Chapter 2. Problems of Universal Cultural Legitimacy for Human Rights

Chapter 3. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights: The Meaning of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Part II. Prospects of Mediation for the Paradox of Universality and State Self-Regulation

Chapter 4. State Responsibility Under International Human Rights Law to Change Religious and Customary Laws

Chapter 5. Islamic Foundations of Religious Human Rights

Chapter 6. Cultural Transformation and Normative Consensus on the Best Interest of the Child

Chapter 7. Toward an Islamic Hermeneutics for Human Rights

Part III. Regional and Global Perspectives

Chapter 8. Competing Claims to Religious Freedom and Communal Self-Determination in Africa

Chapter 9. Globalization and Jurisprudence: An Islamic Perspective

Chapter 10. The Politics of Religion and the Morality of Globalization

Chapter 11. Global Citizenship and Human Rights: From Muslims in Europe to European Muslims

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781283896825

1283896826

9780812204339

0812204336

OCLC:

794925513