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Baderin, Mashood A. --- "Islam and the Realization of Human Rights in the Muslim World" [2010] ELECD 206; in Joseph, Sarah; McBeth, Adam (eds), "Research Handbook on International Human Rights Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: Research Handbook on International Human Rights Law

Editor(s): Joseph, Sarah; McBeth, Adam

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847203687

Section: Chapter 17

Section Title: Islam and the Realization of Human Rights in the Muslim World

Author(s): Baderin, Mashood A.

Number of pages: 27

Extract:

17. Islam and the realization of human rights in
the Muslim world*
Mashood A Baderin



1 Islam and human rights in the Muslim world
The discourse about the relationship between Islam and human rights in the
Muslim world has been diverse and ongoing for some time.1 The discourse is
not only theoretically relevant to the universalization of human rights gener-
ally, but also specifically relevant to the practical realization of human rights
in the Muslim world. This is due to the evident role that Islam has generally


* This is a revised and expanded version of a paper presented by the author at
the Conference on `Reframing Islam: Politics into Law' at the Irish Centre for Human
Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway held on 10­11 September 2005 and
published previously as `Islam and the Realization of Human Rights in the Muslim
World: A Reflection on Two Essential Approaches and Two Divergent Perspectives'
(2007) 4 Muslim World Journal of Human Rights Article 5. I thank Anthony Chase,
Sarah Joseph and Adam McBeth for reading through the draft and for their kind
comments. Responsibility for the views expressed herein is, however, mine alone.
1 There is a wide range of literature on this subject. See, for example, A A An-
Na'im, Towards an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and
International Law (Syracuse University Press, New York, 1990); M Monshipouri,
Islamism, Secularism and Human Rights in the Middle East (L Rienner Publishers,
Boulder, 1998); M A Baderin, International Human ...