Muslims and Global Justice.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (382 pages)
- Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series .
- Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series .
Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Encompassing more than two decades of An-Na'im's work on critical issues, Muslims and Global Justice offers a much-needed theoretical approach to the challenge of realizing global justice in a world of profound religious and cultural difference.
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Civil rights (Islamic law). Globalization-Religious aspects-Islam. Human rights-Religious aspects-Islam. Law and globalization.