Democracy, human rights and law in Islamic thought
By: by Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
Contributors: Markaz Dira sa t al-Wah Đdah al-  Arabi yah (Beirut, Lebanon)
Series: Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences -- v. 1; Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences -- v. 1.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; In Association with Centre for Arab Unity Studies
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York; Beirut, Lebanon
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781441615916
Subjects: Human rights; Politics and government; Equality; Democracy; Theology; RELIGION; Mensenrechten; Islam and state; Islamitisch recht; Democratie; Islam
Notes: Includes index.

Translated from the Arabic.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 1. Religion, state and the application of Islamic Shari   ah; title: The question of religion and the state; title: The question of applying al-Shari   ah; title: 2. Democracy an human rights; title: Democracy: its historical role in the Arab world; title: Democracy and the current Arab reality; title: Cultural implantation of human rights in the contemporary Arab conscience; title: Enhancing awareness of human rights in Islam.