Democracy, human rights and law in Islamic thought
By: by Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
Contributors: Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah (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 the Centre for Arab Unity Studies
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781845117498
Subjects: Islam and state; Democracy; Islam; Human rights; Islamic law; Religion and politics; Islam et État; Droit islamique; Religion et politique; 08.45 political philosophy; 11.84 Islam: other; Islamitisch recht; Democratie; Mensenrechten; Islamic countries; State and Church relations; Religion; Demokrati; Mänskliga rättigheter; Jämlikhet; Religiösa aspekter; Islam och staten; Politik och förvaltning
Description: "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: "Reprinted 2012"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Text in English; translated from the Arabic.
Table of contents: title: 1. Religion, state and the application of Islamic Sharīʻah. The question of religion and the state ; The question of applying al-Sharīʻah; title: 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.