Human Rights and Reformist Islam
"In this pathbreaking work, Mohsen Kadivar, a leading Muslim theologian and religious scholar, presents an authoritative and systematic methodology for interpreting, reforming, and applying Islam's sacred teachings and juridical rulings in ways that would make them compatible with universally accepted norms of human rights. By including freedom of thought, civil and minority rights, religious tolerance, and gender equality, as well as human security and economic rights, Kadivar offers a progressive vision of Islam that could serve as a basis not for political power and state governance but as a spiritual and ethical guide for believers and a foundation for a secular, pluralistic and egalitarian civil society. " -Ali Banuazizi, Professor of Political Science and Director of Islamic Civilization and Societies Program at Boston College
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.
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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.
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Edinburgh University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781474449311
- Utgivelsesår
- 2023
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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"In this pathbreaking work, Mohsen Kadivar, a leading Muslim theologian and religious scholar, presents an authoritative and systematic methodology for interpreting, reforming, and applying Islam's sacred teachings and juridical rulings in ways that would make them compatible with universally accepted norms of human rights. By including freedom of thought, civil and minority rights, religious tolerance, and gender equality, as well as human security and economic rights, Kadivar offers a progressive vision of Islam that could serve as a basis not for political power and state governance but as a spiritual and ethical guide for believers and a foundation for a secular, pluralistic and egalitarian civil society. " -Ali Banuazizi, Professor of Political Science and Director of Islamic Civilization and Societies Program at Boston College