Do Human Rights Have a Secular, Individualistic & Anti-Islamic Bias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Jeremy Gunn (American Academy of Religion, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 149 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 148-169 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_01809 |
| OpenAlex | W3039682095 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
There is a widely shared belief, both within and outside the Muslim world, that Islamic law cannot be reconciled with the modern human rights regime that developed out of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (udhr). Many Muslims perceive that the purportedly individualistic, secular, and Western orientation of human rights is alien to Islamic values. Abdulaziz Sachedina and other scholars of Islam have argued that the underlying tenets of the udhr and its progeny are simply incompatible with Islamic law. In reality, the problem is not an underlying conflict between human rights and Islam, but the mistaken assumption that the modern nation-state is the proper institution for interpreting and enforcing Islamic law
Declaration · Human rights · Individualism · Institution · Islam · Islamic studies · Political science · Sharia · Sociology · State (computer science · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |