Issues on harmonization of human rights in Islam
By: edited by Sayed Sikandar Shah Haneef, Najibah Mohd Zin, Mek Wok Mahmud ; foreword by Professor Emeritus Dato' Dr. Mahmood Zuhdi Haji Abd. Majid, Commissioner of Human Rights Commission Malaysia (SUHAKAM)
Contributors: Najibah Mohd. Zin, editor; Mek Wok Mahmud, 1963- editor; Mahmood Zuhdi bin Hj. Abdul Majid, 1945- writer of foreword
Publisher: IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9789674184186
Subjects: Human rights; Islam
Description: The question harmonization between Islam and human rights is one of the most debatable issues in contemporary discourse among Muslim academics. At the root of the controversy lies the question about the legitimacy of such an academic engagement. This is primarily because the common perception is that the notion of human rights as embodied in Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its supplementary documents is bound by its underlying humanistic assumptions about humans which are anathema to the Islamic concept of human beings as bond-servants and vicegerents of God on earth. Accordingly, its reconcilability with Islam in general and with Shari`ah in particular is a divisive issue among Muslim thinkers. Approaches range from vehement rejection to liberal treatment even to the extent of compromising fixed parts of Islamic law. A middle of the road approach within the framework of Islamic legal methodology of harmonization is still in the making. It is with this agenda in perspective that the authors of this book have engaged on various topical issues on the subject. The central theme emerging from the papers is that the discourse on harmonization between Islam and human rights should be conducted through a critical engagement with both international human rights theories and Muslim intellectual legacy within the parameters and non-negotiable principles of the Qur`an and Sunnah about humans and their rights.
Notes: .. a collection of papers emerging from the researches done by the members of the Contemporary Fiqh Research Unit of the Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences together with selected papers presented in the National Conference on Human Rights in Islam : Issues and Challenges, 2013 -- preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.
Table of contents: title: Harmonization between Islam and international human rights : a critical analysis / Sayed Sikandar Shah Haneef; title: Gender equality and womens rights from Islamic perspective / Mek Wok Mahmud, Najibah Mohd Zin and Nora Abdul Hak; title: Inter-gender balance of rights in Islam / Mansur Isa Yelwa; title: LGBT; title: Human Rights and religious rights : a preliminary review / Noor Azlan Mohd Noor, Mek Wok Mahmud and Miszairi Sitiris; title: The rights of illegitimate child to paternity under Malaysian Islamic law : a revisit / Najibah Mohd Zin, Nora Abdul Hak and Mek Wok Mahmud; title: Child's right to religious freedom under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Islamic law : examining the conflicting paradigm in selected jurisdictions / Nora Abdul Hak, Roslina Che Soh @ Yusoff, Azizah Mohd and Alhaji Umar Alkali; title: The state of religious freedom in Malaysia : ideal and reality / Wan Sabri Wan Yusuf and Arfah Ab. Majid; title: Abolishing death penalty : a preliminary survey of ground reality and Islamic perspective / Miszairi Sitiris; title: The impact of CEDAW on gender equality : Islamic and Malaysian perspectives / Mek Wok Mahmud, Najibah Mohd Zin and Nora Abdul Hak; title: The Application of CEDAW Convention in Muslim Countries : special reference to the Malaysian position / Abdul Ghafur Hamid @ KhinMaungSein; title: Cairo Declaration of Human Rights : viability as an Islamic alternative / Sayed Sikandar Shah Haneef.