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Published in Association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim CivilisationsTranslates the influential collection Haqq al-nas, which argues for the compatibility of human rights and Islam
Written by an original and prolific intellectual of the Iranian reform movement
Adds an extensive new introduction and annotations throughout the text from Mohsen Kadivar bringing the work up-to-date and placing it in its academic and public contexts
Includes a preface by Professor Mirjam K nkler explaining the importance of the translation and the value of its contribution to current scholarly debate
Critically compares Mohsen Kadivar's approach to Islam and human rights with those of five leading contemporary scholars: Mahmoud M. Taha, Abdullahi A. an-Na'im, Ann E. Mayer, Mohammad M. Shabestari and Abdulaziz A. Sachedina
Includes a glossary of key terminology
Human Rights and Reformist Islam critiques traditional Islamic approaches to the question of compatibility between human rights and Islam, and argues instead for their reconciliation from the perspective of a reformist Islam. The book focuses on six controversial case studies: religious discrimination; gender discrimination; slavery; freedom of religion; punishment of apostasy; and arbitrary or harsh punishments.
Explaining the strengths of structural ijtihad, Mohsen Kadivar's approach is based on the rational classification of Islamic teachings as temporal or permanent on the one hand, and four criteria of being Islamic on the other: reasonableness, justice, morality and efficiency. In the book, all of the verses and Hadith that are problematic in relation to human rights are abrogated rationally according to these criteria. The result is a powerful, solutions-based argument based on reformist Islam providing a scholarly bridge between modernity and Islamic tradition in relation to human rights.
Contents
Foreword: Revising Shariʿa in the light of the Universal Declaration of Human RightsMirjam Künkler
Preface to the English TranslationMohsen Kadivar
Introduction
Section I: The Bases for Discussions on Islam and Human Rights
1. From Traditional Islam to End-Oriented Islam
2. The Principles of Compatibility between Islam and Modernity
3. An Introduction to the Public and Private Debate in Islamic Culture
Section II: Islam and Human Rights
4. Imam Sajjad and the Rights of Mankind
5. Human Rights and Reformist Islam
6. Questions and Answers about Human Rights and Reformist Islam
7. Human Rights, Secularism, and Religion
Section III: Freedoms of Belief, Religion, and Politics
8. The Freedom of Belief and Religion in Islam and Human Rights Documents
9. The Rights of the Political Opposition in an Islamic Society
Section IV: Women's Rights
10. Reformist Islam and Women's Rights
11. Women's Rights in the Hereafter (A Theological Reading of the Qurʾan)
Section V: Other Debates in Human Rights
12. The Issue of Slavery in Contemporary Islam
13. The Rights of Non-Muslims in Contemporary Islam
14. Social Security in Islamic Teachings
Bibliography and Sources; Glossary; Index
