Religious legal traditions, international human rights law and Muslim states / by Kamran Hashemi.

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 sc...

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Superior document:Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights, v. 7
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ; v. 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of 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.