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Religious legal traditions, international human rights law and Muslim states / by Kamran Hashemi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hashemi, Kamran.
- Series:
- Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ; v. 7.
- Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights, 1871-7829 ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination--Law and legislation--Islamic countries.
- Discrimination.
- Human rights--Islamic countries.
- Human rights.
- Dhimmis (Islamic law)--Legal status, laws, etc--Islamic countries.
- Dhimmis (Islamic law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book offers an exploration of aspects of the subject, Islam and Human Rights, which is the focus of considerable scholarship in recent years predominantly from Western scholars. Thus it is interesting and important to have the field addressed from a non -Western perspective and by an Iranian scholar. The study draws on Persian language literature that addresses both theological and legal dimensions of the theme. The work is also distinctive in that it tackles three areas that have been largely ignored in the literature. It undertakes a comparative study of the laws of several Muslim States with respect to religious freedom, minorities and the rights of the child. The study offers an optimistic vision of the fundamental compatibility of Islam and international human rights standards.
- Contents:
- Muslim legal traditions of apostasy and relevant human rights law
- Current application of traditional rules of conversion and proselytizing
- Current application of traditional rules of blasphemy (sabb)
- Current application of traditional rules of heresy
- Muslim legal traditions of dhimmah and relevant human rights law
- Current application of public aspects of dhimmah
- Current application of personal aspects of dhimmah
- Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Muslim states.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-39817-2
- 9786612398179
- 90-474-3153-7
- OCLC:
- 562640522
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004165557.vii-286 DOI
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