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Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: Searching for Common Ground?
Author(s): Anver M. Emon (Editor), Mark Ellis (Editor), Benjamin Glahn (Editor)
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publication Date: 11 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 418 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199641447
- ISBN-13: 9780199641444
Book Description
In this volume, leading experts in Islamic law and international human rights law attempt to deepen the understanding of human rights and Islam, paving the way for a more meaningful debate. Focusing on central areas of controversy, such as freedom of speech and religion, gender equality, and minority rights, the authors examine the contextual nature of how Islamic law and international human rights law are legitimately formed, interpreted, and applied within a community. They examine how these fundamental interests are recognized and protected within the law, and what restrictions are placed on the freedoms associated with them.
By examining how each system recognizes and limits fundamental freedoms, this volume clears the ground for exploring the relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law on a sounder footing. In doing so it offers a challenging and distinctive contribution to the literature on the subject, and will be an invaluable reference for students, academics, and policy-makers engaged in the legal and religious debates surrounding Islam and the West.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This volume…significantly advances and broadens our knowledge, both of the workings of Islamic law and international human rights and the interface of the two, shining new light on the importance of the agency of the State and civil society in that interaction. Scholars and students of Islamic law, international human rights law and international relations will find the contributions in this book an excellent and innovative resource. ―
Hakeem O. Yusef, The Howard Journal of Criminal JusticeAbout the Author
Interdisciplinary Journal.
As Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA) Mark Ellis leads the foremost international organization of bar associations, law firms and individual lawyers in the world. Prior to joining the IBA, he spent ten years as the first Executive Director of the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI), a project of the American Bar Association (ABA). Providing technical legal assistance to twenty-eight countries in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, and to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, CEELI remains the most extensive international pro bono legal assistance project ever undertaken by the US legal community. He served as Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, chaired by Justice Richard J. Goldstone and was appointed by OSCE to advise on the creation of Serbia’s War Crimes Tribunal and was actively involved with the Iraqi High Tribunal.
Benjamin Glahn is the Former Deputy Chief Program Officer and Program Director at the Salzburg Global Seminar.
