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Human Rights in Islamic Societies: Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights

Human Rights in Islamic Societies: Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights

Author: Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367776176

Published In: January 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9780367433499

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This book compares Islamic and Western ideas of human rights in order to ascertain which human rights, if any, can be considered universal. This is a profound topic with a rich history that is highly relevant within global politics and society today.

The argument in this book is formed by bringing William Talbott’s Which Rights Should Be Universal? (2005) and Abdulaziz Sachedina’s Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (2014) into conversation. By bridging the gap between cultural relativists and moral universalists, this book seeks to offer a new model for the understanding of human rights. It contends that it is a universal tendency toward cruelty that produces universal counter-cruelty. Thus, a dynamic equilibrium is created that can be made to endure for as long as the power differential does. It goes on to state that the persistent impulse to inflict cruel acts is checked only by the commitment of citizens to check the powerful--the State--with civil society.

Engaging with Islamic and Western, historical and contemporary and relativist and universalist thought, this book is a fresh take on a perennially important issue. As such, it will be a first-rate resource for any scholars working in Religious Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies, Ethics, Sociology and Law and Religion.

1. Introduction

Part I. Human Rights as a Discourse

2. What We Now Know: Human Rights and Post-Enlightenment Thought

3. Islamic Reaction to Western Enlightenment

Part II. Human Rights in History

4. European Enlightenment, Racism, and Human Rights

5. Islam, Supremacy, Sectarianism, and Human Rights

Part III. Globalism, History, and Human Rights Today

6. The Case of the 2011 Wars in SWANA

7. Actual and Instrumentalized Human Rights

8. Conclusion Human Rights, Civil Society, and the State

Appendix