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Democracy, human rights and law in Islamic thought / by Mohammed Abed al-Jabri.
Author
Jābirī, Muḥammad ʻĀbid
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Language
English
Published/Created
London : I.B. Tauris in association with the Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 2009.
Description
v, 258 pages ; 25 cm.
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BP173.6 .J32 2009
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Subject(s)
Islam and state
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Democracy
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Religious aspects
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Islam
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Human rights
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Religious aspects
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Islam
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Islamic law
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Religion and politics
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Islamic countries
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Related name
Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah (Beirut, Lebanon)
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Series
Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ; v. 1.
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Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ; v. 1
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Summary note
"Mohammad Abed al-Jabri is one of the most influential political philosophers in the contemporary Middle East. A critical rationalist in the tradition of Avincenna and Averroes, he emphasises the distinctive political and cultural heritage of the Arab world whilst rejecting the philosophical discourses that have been used to obscure its democratic deficit." "This volume introduces an English-language audience for the first time to writings that have had a major impact on Arab political thought. Wide-ranging in scope yet focused in detail, these essays interrogate concepts such as democracy, law, and human rights, looking at how they have been applied in the history of the Arab world, and show that they are determined by political and social context, not by Islamic doctrine." "Jabri argues that in order to develop democratic societies in which human rights are respected, the Arab world cannot simply rely on old texts and traditions. Nor can it import democratic models from the West. Instead, he says, a new tradition will have to be forged by today's Arabs themselves, on their own terms."--Jacket.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
Translated from the Arabic.
Contents
1. Religion, state and the application of Islamic Sharīʻah. The question of religion and the state ; The question of applying al-Sharīʻah
Democracy an human rights. Democracy: its historical role in the Arab world ; Democracy and the current Arab reality ; Cultural implantation of human rights in the contemporary Arab conscience ; Enhancing awareness of human rights in Islam.
ISBN
9781845117498 ((hbk.))
1845117492 ((hbk.))
OCLC
232981001
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