Human Rights in Islamic Societies - 9780367433499

Taylor & Francis

Human Rights in Islamic SocietiesMuslims and the Western Conception of Rights\nAuthor(s): Ahmed E. Souaiaia\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367433499, 978-0367433499\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nThe arguments in this book are formed by bringing William Talbotts Which Rights Should Be Universal? [tel] and Abdulaziz Sachedinas Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights [tel] 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-th.