Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78076-650-8 (ISBN)
Throughout the Middle East, and in the west as well, there has been much discussion concerning the notion of Islamic rule and the application of shari‘ah by the state. Central to these debates are the three key themes that Mohammad Abed al-Jabri looks at in this book: democracy, human rights and law. Jabri, one of the most influential political philosophers in the contemporary Middle East, examines how these three concepts have been applied in the history of the Arab world, and shows 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. Through analysis of contemporary Arab ideology, its doubts about democracy, whether human rights are universal and the role of women and minorities in Islamic society, he expounds on the most pertinent issues in modern political philosophy. This lively interrogation of the building blocs of western conceptions of a modern state is a classic text and is vital for all students of modern Islamic political thought.
Mohammed Abed al-Jabri (1936-2010) was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rabat. As one of the most influential political philosophers in the contemporary Arab world, he authored many acclaimed books including, in Arabic: The Structure of Arab Reason, Arab Political Reason' and Arab Ethical Reason, and in English: The Formation of Arab Reason: Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World (I.B.Tauris, 2011).
Mohammad Abed-al Jabri is Professor of Philosophy at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He was one of the authors of the infuential 2002 Arab Human Development Report.
VOLUME I: Religion, State and the Application of Islamic Shari‘ah
Part One: The Question of Religion and the State
Chapter 1: Religion and the State in the Authoritative Cultural Referent
Chapter 2: Religion and State in the Renaissance Authoritative Referent
Chapter 3: Religion, Politics and Civil War
Part Two: The Question of Applying al-Shari‘ah
Chapter 4: Awakening and Renewal
Chapter 5: Traditionalism (al-salafiyah)… or The Historical Experience of the Nation?
Chapter 6: Extremism: Right and Left
Chapter 7: Extremism Between Creed and al-Shari‘ah
Chapter 8: For the Procession of Ijtihad
Chapter 9: The Rationality of the Rulings of al-Shari‘ah
Chapter 10: Rulings and Dependence
Chapter 11: Every Age has its Special Needs
Chapter 12: ‘Avoid the Hudud Penalties when in Doubt’
Chapter 13: Concerning ‘Complete Application of al-Shari‘ah’
VOLUME II: Democracy and Human Rights
Part One: Democracy: Its Historical Role in the Arab World
Chapter 1: A Demands in the Arab World
Chapter 2: Al-Shura and Democracy are not One and the Same
Chapter 3: The Difficult Birth
Chapter 4: Partnership in Human Governance
Chapter 5: Democracy and the Right to Speak
Chapter 6: No Way Out Except Through a Historical Bloc
Part Two: Democracy and the Current Arab Reality
Chapter 7: The Problem of the Transition to Democracy
Chapter 8: Objective Situations Conducive to Democracy
Chapter 9: Contemporary Arab Ideology and its Doubts about Democracy
Chapter 10: Dispersing the Doubts about Democracy
Chapter 11: The State that Swallows up Society
Chapter 12: Civil Society and the Elites in the Arab Nation
Chapter 13: Elites Fear Democracy
Chapter 14: Democracy, a Necessity
Part Three: Cultural Implantation of Human Rights in the Contemporary Arab Conscience
Chapter 15: Human Rights: Particularity and Universality
Chapter 16: Universality of Human Rights in the European Point of Reference
Chapter 17: Universality of Human Rights in the Islamic Authoritative Point of Reference: Reason and Innate Nature
Chapter 18: Universality of Human Rights in the Islamic Authoritative Point of Reference: Covenant and al-Shura
Chapter 19: Philosophy of Human Rights and Religion
Chapter 20: Freedom is One Things, Apostasy Another
Chapter 21: Women’s Rights in Islam: Between the Fundamental Principles of al-Shari‘ah and its Particular Rulings
Part Four: Enhancing Awareness of Human Rights in Islam
Chapter 22: The Concept of the Human Being in Modern Though
Chapter 23: The Concept of the Human Being in the Qur’an
Chapter 24: The Right to Life and its Enjoyment
Chapter 25: The Right to Freedom of Belief, Knowledge and Difference
Chapter 26: Al-Shura between the Qur’an and the Circumstantial Interpretations
Chapter 27: The Right to Equality and the Question of ‘Preference’
Chapter 28: Slavery and the Rights of Women
Chapter 29: The Right to Justice: The Strength of the Qur’anic Text and the Vacillation of the ‘Advisory Discourse’
Chapter 30: The Rights of the Weak Oppressed: The Right of the Poor to the Wealth of the Rich
Chapter 31: Social Security in Islam: Necessity of Development
Chapter 32: The Rights of God, the Rights of People: Application of al-Shari‘ah
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.11.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | International Library of Ethnicity, Identity and Culture |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 376 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78076-650-5 / 1780766505 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78076-650-8 / 9781780766508 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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