Human Rights, Revolution, and Reform in the Muslim World.

Intro -- Book Title -- Table of Contents -- 1-Human Rights and the Muslim World -- What This Book Does and Does Not Claim About Human Rights, Revolution, and Reform -- How This Book Is Organized and Argued -- Reasons for Pessimism and Optimism -- Notes -- 2-A Selective History -- Engagement with Human Rights: From Palestinians to Islamists -- Muslim States and Human Rights -- Arab Civil Society and Human Rights -- Why This History Matters -- Notes -- 3-The Transnational Context -- Transnational Structures and the Muslim World -- Transnationalism and Islamism -- Transnational Human Rights Norms -- How Human Rights Have Become a Part of Politics in the Muslim World -- Notes -- 4-Human Rights: From Abstraction to Reality -- Beyond Barren Abstractions and Caricatures -- The Structural Bases of the Emergence of Human Rights -- The Shifting Substance of Human Rights -- Domestic, International, and Transnational Realities -- The Impact of Human Rights -- Notes -- 5-An Antifoundational Understanding of Human Rights -- Groundings in Law, Politics, Norms, and Institutions -- The Relativist Critique -- Toward an Antifoundational Understanding of Human Rights -- Human Rights as a Two-Way Street -- Notes -- 6-Political Rights: Democracy and Free Expression -- Iran's 2009 Election -- Democracy, Free Expression, and the Defamation of Religion -- The Interdependence and Relevance of Political Rights -- Notes -- 7-Social Rights: Sexual Orientation -- Controversies over Sexual Orientation in the Middle East -- Massad: Are Rights a Western Identity Project? -- Who Decides If Human Rights Are Relevant? Moving Beyond Fixed Identities -- Opening Up to the Margins -- Notes -- 8-Human Rights, Revolution, and Reform in the Muslim World -- Reflections on the Book -- The Global Backlash Against Human Rights -- The Arab Spring: Between Backlash and Revolutionary Potential.

The Urgency of Agency -- Notes -- Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book.

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