Human Rights And Islamic Legal Reform

توضیح

یادداشت: عنوان فارسی: حقوق بشر و اصلاحات حقوقی اسلامی.
Is Islam compatible with human rights? This question has been in recent years the focus of attention of numerous human rights scholars, who have produced varying answers and advanced conflicting views. Any one who undertakes to study the literature generated in the process of answering the above question soon realizes that his or her task is exceedingly complex. For one finds that the foremost critics of traditional shari`a (Islamic law) are united with its ardent advocates in denying any relationship between Islam and human rights. One also finds that the proponents of a conception of human rights rooted in Islamic worldview stand condemned by both modernist and traditionalist scholars: by the former because of their association with Islam, and by the latter because of their advocacy of human rights. In the midst of the contradiction and confusion that riddle the discourse on Islam and human rights, clarity and understanding are sacrificed.