Human rights, revolution, and reform in the Muslim world
By: Anthony Tirado Chase
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781588268013
Subjects: Human rights; Politics and government
Description: Does the international human rights regime inform the nature of politics in the Muslim world today? If so, how? And perhaps more fundamentally, why? Linking these questions in a provocative way, Anthony Tirado Chase persuasively rejects popular arguments that there is an incompatibility between human rights and Islam. Chase uses local historical developments as a point of departure, in the process stressing the importance of focusing on the diverse Muslim world rather than on one of its parts. He carefully supports his assertions with examples from contentious żon the groundż debates. Adopting a comprehensive view of human rights, he offers a fresh take on the debates over democracy and free expression, approaches to economic development, and social rights in Muslim-majority states, as well as the role of movements within those states in shaping human rights norms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human rights and the Muslim world; title: A selective history; title: The transnational context; title: Human rights: from abstraction to reality; title: An antifoundational understanding of human rights; title: Political rights: democracy and free expression; title: Social rights: sexual orientation; title: Human rights, revolution, and reform in the Muslim world.