The Rights of God: Islam, Human rights, and Comparative Ethics ebook
Irene Oh “The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics "
Georgetown University Press | 2007-11-15 | ISBN:1589011848 | 158 pages |
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The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics
(Advancing Human Rights)
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"An im****tant addition to the literature on comparative religious
ethics and on Islam and human rights." —Sohail Hashmi, Mount Holyoke
College
Promoting Islam as a defender of human rights is laden with
difficulties. Advocates of human rights will readily point out numerous
humanitarian failures carried out in the name of Islam. In The Rights of
God, Irene Oh looks at human rights and Islam as a religious issue
rather than a political or legal one and draws on three revered Islamic
scholars to offer a broad range of perspectives that challenge our
assumptions about the role of religion in human rights.
The theoretical ****ft from the conception of morality based in natural
duty and law to one of rights has created tensions that hinder a
fruitful exchange between human rights theorists and religious thinkers.
Does the static identification of human rights with lists of specific
rights, such as those found in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, make sense given the cultural, historical, and religious
diversity of the societies in which these rights are to be respected and
implemented? In examining human rights issues of the contem****ary
Islamic world, Oh illustrates how the value of religious scholar****p
cannot be overestimated.
Oh analyzes the commentaries of Abul A'la Maududi, Sayyid Qutb, and
Abdolkarim Soroush—all prominent and often controversial Islamic
thinkers—on the topics of political participation, religious toleration,
and freedom of conscience. While Maududi and Qutb represent traditional
Islam, and Soroush a more reform and Western-friendly approach, all
three contend that Islam is indeed capable of accommodating and
advocating human rights.
Whereas disentangling politics and culture from religion is never easy,
Oh shows that the attempt must be made in order to understand and
overcome the historical obstacles that prevent genuine dialogue from
taking place across religious and cultural boundaries.
Irene Oh is assistant professor in the religious studies department at
the University of Miami.
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