Routledge Studies in Islam and Human Rights – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org Sun, 08 Oct 2023 05:05:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 https://iric.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/iric-favicon.png Routledge Studies in Islam and Human Rights – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org 32 32 Human Rights in Islamic Societies: Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights https://iric.org/human-rights-in-islamic-societies-muslims-and-the-western-conception-of-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=human-rights-in-islamic-societies-muslims-and-the-western-conception-of-rights https://iric.org/human-rights-in-islamic-societies-muslims-and-the-western-conception-of-rights/#respond Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:16:38 +0000 https://demo.iric.org/?p=14627 Human Rights in Islamic Societies: Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights

By Ahmed E. Souaiaia

Publisher: Routledge

Publication Date: January 9, 2023

Book Series: Routledge Studies in Islam and Human Rights

ISBN: 9780367776176

 

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 arguments in this book are 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 human rights abuses are outcomes of complex systems by design and/or by default. Therefore, it proposes that a rigorous systems-thinking approach will contribute to addressing the challenge of human rights.

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.

 

About the Author

Ahmed E. Souaiaia is a member of the faculty with joint appointment in International Studies, Religious Studies, History, and at the College of Law at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of several books including Anatomy of Dissent in Islamic Societies: Ibadism, Rebellion and Legitimacy (2013) and Contesting Justice: Women, Islam, Law, and Society (2008). He has published articles in refereed journals and essays in national and international media outlets. He has received a number of other awards including the Presidential Faculty Fellowship, Dean’s Scholar Award, and the Provost’s Global Forum Award.

Source: Routledge

]]> https://iric.org/human-rights-in-islamic-societies-muslims-and-the-western-conception-of-rights/feed/ 0 Book Series: Routledge Studies in Islam and Human Rights https://iric.org/book-series-routledge-studies-in-islam-and-human-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-series-routledge-studies-in-islam-and-human-rights https://iric.org/book-series-routledge-studies-in-islam-and-human-rights/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2019 06:58:02 +0000 https://demo.iric.org/?p=19560 Prof. Souaiaia is Founder and currently the General Editor of the Book Series, Routledge Studies in Islam and Human Rights, which publishes scholarly monographs that examine the rich and complex intellectual and institutional legacy of Islam relevant to human rights and social (in)justice since the formative period of Islam (7th century CE).

The Series aims to integrate knowledge from a variety of disciplines employing new and established methodological and theoretical approaches in human rights research, taking into consideration the consequential legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and globalism on Muslim-majority countries in the modern era as well as the impact of Islam, as an idea and event, on indigenous peoples during the rise and expansion of the Islamic civilization.

While acknowledging the fact that the human rights discourse is primarily political, the Series is committed to providing space to critical analysis, advocacy-oriented, and public policy research in an accessible form to students, professors, human rights professionals, and publically-engaged scholars. The Series welcomes works dealing specifically with the topic of human rights theories as well as discoveries that connect human rights to social issues, institutions, themes, ideas, and events.

Source: SOUAIAIA

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