Islamic Law Reform and Human Rights: Challenges and Rejoinders

Copenhagen: Nordic Human Rights Publications, 1992. Soft cover. Good. Paperback, c1992. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, with the exception of 5 pages, which have highlighting and pencil markings. Binding is firm. Cover shows wear to edges, including edges of spine. Proceedings of the Seminar on Human Rights and the Modern Application of Islamic Law, Oslo 14-15 February 1992. A rare copy. Contents: Introduction / Tore Lindholm and Kari Vogt -- The concept of "Islamic reformation" / Mohammed Arkoun -- Toward an Islamic theology of toleration / Roy P. Mottahedeh -- A critique of an-Na?im's assessment of Islamic criminal justice / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Abdullahi an-Na?im on constitutional and human rights issues / Ishtiaq Ahmed -- Islamic law/shari?a and human rights: international law and international relations / Bassam Tibi -- Toward an Islamic reformation: responses and reflections / Abdullahi an-Na?im -- Islam and human rights: different issues, different contexts: lessons from comparisons / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- The application of shari?a (Islamic law) and human rights in the Sudan / Abdullahi an-Na?im -- Islamist prospects for human rights in North Africa (Maghreb) / Khalid Dura?n -- Liberation, human rights, gender and Islamic law: the South Afican case / Farid Esack -- Implications of Twelver Shi??ih mihdi?sm on religious tolerance: the case of the Baha?'i? minority in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Payam Akhavan -- Human rights and the application of Islamic law in Kazakhstan / Nour Kirabaev -- Human rights vs. the right of nations to self-determination: the Republic of Tatarstan experience / Arthur Sagadeev -- Secular society: an attempt at initiation / Helge Høibraaten.