This four-volume compendium delves into topics such as the theology of rights in Islam, comparative explorations, and a historical study of human rights in Muslim-majority societies spanning Africa, the Middle East, and South and South East Asia during the 20th and early 21 centuries. Moreover, it explores how Muslim women and men have understood their faith and evolving notions of rights and liberties.
Volume 1 analyzes the relationship between religion and human rights along with "Western" and "Islamic" human rights schemes. Volume 2 traces early and later Muslim responses to human rights during the 20th century. Volume 3 considers the political context in the struggle for human rights in Muslim societies by focusing on state-society relations. Volume 4 explores shariah and contemporary human rights controversies by surveying subjects such as: womens rights which is described as the locomotive of societal change, apostasy and blasphemy laws, as well as LGBT and labor rights.
Volume 1 - Religion/Islam and Human Rights
1. Louis Henkin, Religion, Religions and Human Rights, Journal of Religious
Ethics 26, 2, 1998, 229-239.
2. David Little, Rethinking Human Rights: A Review Essay on Religion,
Relativism and Other Matters, Journal of Religious Ethics 27, 1, 1999,
151-177.
3. Hilary Charlesworth, The Challenges of Human Rights Law for Religious
Traditions, in Mark W. Janis and Carolyn Evans (eds.), Religion and
International Law (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publisher, 2004), 401-415.
4. Amartya Sen, Human Rights and Asian Values, The New Republic 217 (July
14 & 21, 1997), 33-40.
5. Fred Dallmayr, "Asian Values" and Global Human Rights, Philosophy East
and West 52, 2, 2002, 173-189.
6. Irene Oh, Conversations about Human Rights and Islam in Irene Oh, The
Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights and Comparative Ethics (Washington DC:
Georgetown University Press, 2007), 12-35.
7. Heiner Bielefeldt, Muslim Voices in the Human Rights Debate, Human
Rights Quarterly 17, 1995, 587-617.
8. Heiner Bielefeldt, "Western" vs. "Islamic" Human Rights Conceptions?: A
Critique of Cultural Essentialism in the Discussion on Human Rights,
Political Theory 28, 2000, 90-121.
9. Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Assimilating Human Rights in the Middle East, in
Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics, 5th
edition (Boulder: Westview Press, 2013), 1-26.
10. Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Human Rights Commitment in Modern Islam, in
Zainah Anwar (ed.), Wanted: Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family (Kuala
Lumpur, Musawah, 2009), 113-178.
11. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, The Interdependence of Religion, Secularism,
and Human Rights: Prospects for Islamic Societies, Common Knowledge 11, 1,
2005, 56-80.
12. Abdelaziz Sachedina, The Clash of Universalisms: Religious and Secular
in Human Rights, The Hedgehog Review 9, 2007, 49-62.
13. Ebrahim Moosa, The Dilemma of Islamic Rights Schemes, Journal of Law
and Religion 15, 2001, 185-215.
14. Anthony Tirado Chase, A Selective History, in Anthony Tirado Chase,
Human Rights, Revolution, and Reform in the Muslim World (Boulder: Lynne
Rienner, 2012), 23-46.
15. Mohammad H. Fadel, Public Reason as a Strategy for Principled
Reconciliation: The Case of Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law,
Chicago Journal of International Law 8, 1, 2007, 1-20.
Volume 2 - Early and Later Muslim Responses to Human Rights
16. Turan Kayaoglu, The Organization of Islamic Cooperations Declaration on
Human Rights: Promises and Pitfalls (Doha: Brookings Doha Center, Policy
Briefing, September 2020).
17. Sayyid Qutb, The Foundations of Social Justice in Islam, in Sayyid
Qutb, Social Justice in Islam, translated by John B. Hardie, revised by Hamid
Algar (Oneonta, NY: Islamic Publications International, 2000), 51-78.
18. Sultanhussain Tabandeh, A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights (London: F.T Goulding, 1970), 1-30.
19. Abdul Ala Maududi, Human Rights in Islam (London: Islamic Foundation,
1976), 9-39.
20. Morteza Motahari, The Human Status of Women in the Quran, in The Rights
of Women in Islam (Tehran: World Organization for Islamic Services, 1980),
73-92.
21. Robert Traer, Human Rights in Islam, Islamic Studies 28, 2, 1989,
117-129.
22. Ismail al-Faruqi, Islam and Human Rights, Islamic Quarterly 27, 1983,
12-30.
23. Susan Waltz, Universal Human Rights: The Contribution of Muslim States,
Human Rights Quarterly 26, 4, 2004, 799-844.
24. Charles Kurzman, Introduction: Liberal Islam and its Islamic Context,
in Charles Kurzman (ed.), Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1998), 3-26.
25. Anwar Ibrahim, Universal Values and Muslim Democracy, Journal of
Democracy 17, 3, 2006, 5-12.
26. Riffat Hassan, On Human Rights and the Qur'anic Perspective, in Journal
of Ecumenical Studies, 29, 1982, 51-65.
27. Fatima Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation
of Womens Rights in Islam, translated by Mary Jo Lakeland (New York:
Addison-Wesley, 1991), 1-11, 49-61.
28. Amina Wadud, Quran and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from Womans
Perspective (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1-10, 12-14.
29. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, Sharia and Basic Human Rights Concerns, in
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberaties,
Human Rights and International Law (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
1990), 161-181.
30. Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Place of Tolerance in Islam, Boston Review
(December 23, 2001).
31. Farish A. Noor, Reformist Muslim Thinkers in Malaysia: Engaging with
Power to Uplift the Umma, in Shireen T. Hunter (ed.), Reformist Voices of
Islam: Mediating Islam and Modernity (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2009),
208-226.
32. Nurcholish Madjid, The Necessity of Renewing Islamic Thought and the
Problem of the Integration of the Ummah, in Nurcholish Madjid, The True Face
of Islam: Essays on Islam and Modernity in Indonesia (Ciputat, Indonesia:
Voice Center Indonesia, 2003), 315-322.
Volume 3 - The Politics of Islam and Human Rights in Muslims Societies
33. Arab Human Development Report 2004: Towards Freedom in the Arab World
(New York: United Nations Development Program 2005), 5-22.
34. Khaled Abou El Fadl, What Really Went Wrong: Postcolonialism and the
Rise of Modern Apologetics, in Khaled Abou El Fadl, Reasoning with God:
Reclaiming Shariah in the Modern Age (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield,
2014), 203-227.
35. Fred Halliday, Relativism and Universalism in Human Rights: The Case of
the Islamic Middle East, Political Studies 43, 1995, 152-167.
36. Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Shifting Grounds for Challenging the Authority of
International Human Rights Law: Religion as a Malleable and Politicized
Pretext for Governmental Noncompliance with Human Rights, in Andrįs Sajó
(ed.), Human Rights with Modesty: The Problem of Universalism (Leiden:
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004), 349-374.
37. Sami Zubaida, The Quest for the Islamic State: Islamic Fundamentalism in
Egypt and Iran, in Sami Zubaida, Islam, the People and the State: Political
Ideas and Movements in the Middle East, 3rd edition (New York: IB Tauris,
2009), 38-63.
38. Nathan J. Brown, Official Islam in the Arab World: The Contest for
Religious Authority (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 2017).
39. Nikki Keddie, Scholarship, Relativism and Universalism, in Nikki
Keddie, Women in the Middle East: Past and Present (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2007), 225-249.
40. Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, The Politics of Islam, in Mohammad
Ayatollahi Tabaar, Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran (New
York: Columbia University Press, 2018), 1-15.
41. Catherine Sameh, Discourses of Equality, Rights and Islam in the One
Million Signatures Campaign in Iran, International Feminist Journal of
Politics 12, 3-4, 2010, 444-463.
42. Michaelle Browers, Gender and Politics, in J. Michael Ryan and Helen
Rizzo (eds.), Gender in the Middle East and North Africa (Boulder: Lynne
Rienner, 2020), 113-128.
43. Madawi Al-Rasheed, Civil Society in an Authoritarian State, in Madawi
Al-Rasheed, Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi
Arabia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 55-74.
44. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, The Dark Path of Minority Politics: Why Privileging
Minorities Will Only Perpetuate the Syrian Catastrophe, in Thanassis
Cambanis and Michael Wahid Hanna (eds.), Citizenship and its Discontents: The
Struggle for Rights, Pluralism and Inclusion in the Middle East (New York:
The Century Foundation Press, 2019), 15-37.
45. Ibtesam Alatiyat and Hassan Barari, Liberating Women with Islam? The
Islamists and Womens Issues in Jordan, Totalitarian Movements and Politics
Religions 11, 3-4, 2010, 359-378.
46. Joshua Neoh, Islamic State and Common Law in Malaysia: A Case Study of
Lina Joy, Global Jurist 8, 2, 2008, 1-27.
47. Asma Jahangir, Human Rights in Pakistan: A System in the Making, in
Samantha Power and Graham Allison (eds.), Realizing Human Rights: From
Inspiration to Impact (New York: St. Martins Press, 2000), 167-193.
48. John R. Bowen, Contours of Sharia in Indonesia, in Mirjam Künkler and
Alfred Stepan (eds.), Democracy and Islam in Indonesia (New York: Columbia
University Press, 2013), 151-167.
Volume 4 - Shariah & Contemporary Controversies
50. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Foundations, in Amyn Sajoo (ed), The Sharia:
History, Ethics and Law (New York: IB Tauris, 2018), 19-37.
51. Nina Khouri, Human Rights and Islam: Lessons from Amina Lawal and
Mukhtar Mai, Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 8, 1, 2007, 93-109.
52, Recep Senturk, Minority Rights in Islam: From Dhimmi to Citizen, in
Shireen T.
Hunter and Huma Malik (eds), Islam and Human Rights: Advancing a US-Muslim
Dialogue,(Washington, D.C.: Center for International and Strategic Studies,
2005), 67-99.
53. Abdullah Saeed, Rethinking Citizenship Rights of NonMuslims in an
Islamic State: Rashid alGhannshi's Contribution to the Evolving Debate,
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 10:3 (1999), 307-323.
54. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Beyond dhimmihood: citizenship and human
rights," in Robert Hefner ed., The New Cambridge History of Islam: Muslims
and Modernity, Culture and Society Since 1800, volume 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010), 314-334.
55. Barbara Zollner, "Mithliyyun or Lutiyyun? Neo-Orthodoxy and the Debate on
the Unlawfullness of Same-Sex Relations in Islam," in Samar Habib, Islam and
Homosexuality, Volume 1 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010), 193-221.
56. Joseph Massad, "Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab
World," Public Culture 14 (Spring 2002), 361-385.
57. Anthony Chase, "Social Rights: Sexual Orientation," in Anthony Chase,
Human Rights, Revolution, and Reform in the Muslim World (Boulder: Lynne
Rienner, 2012), 151-172.
58. Abdullahi An-Naim, "The Islamic Law of Apostasy and its Modern
Applicability: A Case from Sudan," Religion 16 (July 1986), 197-224.
59. Baber Johansen, "Apostasy as Objective and Depersonalized Fact: Two
Recent Egypt Court Cases," Social Research 70 (Fall 2003), 687-710.
60. Shaun Gregory, "Under the Shadow of Islam: The Plight of the Christian
Minority in Pakistan," Contemporary South Asia 20 (June 2012), 195-212.
61. Ahmet Kuru, "Understanding the History and Politics Behind Pakistans
Blasphemy Laws," The Conversation, February 20,
2020.
62. Ron E. Hassner, "Blasphemy and Violence," International Studies Quarterly
55 (March 2011), 23-45.
63. Abdullah Saeed, "Freedom of Expression," in Abdullah Saeed, Human Rights
and Islam: An Introduction to Key Debates between Islamic Law and
International Human Rights (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018),
174-191.
64. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, "Muslims, Human Rights and Womens Rights," in
Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow eds., Religion and the Global Politics of
Human Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 71-98.
65. Margot Badran, "Between Secular and Islamic Feminism/s: Reflections on
the Middle East and Beyond," Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 (Winter
2005), 6-28.
66. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, "Beyond Islam vs. Feminism," IDS Bulletin 42
(January 2011), 67-77.
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Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denvers Josef Korbel School of International Studies, USA
Emran Qureshi is a Wertheim Research Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School, USA
